{"id":5073,"date":"2010-02-07T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:52:36","slug":"a-new-paradigm-of-race-visit-to-brazil-prompts-the-question-can-mixing-everyone-up-solve-the-race-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5073","title":{"rendered":"A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bloomington Herald-Times
\n2004-08-29
\nCourtesy of: Black Film Center\/Archive
\nIndiana University<\/a><\/p>\n

Audrey T. McCluskey<\/a><\/strong>, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
\nIndiana University<\/em><\/p>\n

If Tiger Woods<\/a> lived in Brazil<\/a> he would not have had to coin the word “Cablanasian” to describe the multiracial mixture of caucasian, black, and Asian that makes up his lineage nor face derision from those of us who thought he was trippin’ (being silly, unreal). As my husband and I saw on a recent trip, in Brazil race-mixing is the rule, not the exception<\/strong>, with the majority of its 170 million people being visible incarnates of the slogan that officials like to tout: “We’re a multiracial democracy. We’re not white, or black, or Indian, we’re all Brazilians.”<\/p>\n

Skeptical, but being swept along by the stunning beauty of the country and its people, I did begin to wonder if (contrary to learned opinion) Brazil had solved its race problem by just mixing everyone up. British scholar Paul Gilroy<\/a> recently said that Brazil and South Africa<\/a> – a country that I also visited recently and will invoke later – present “a new paradigm of race” that is more subtle and flexible than the U.S.’s old “one drop” (of black blood makes you black) rule<\/a> that equates whiteness with mythical purity…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem? Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-08-29 Courtesy of: Black Film Center\/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University If Tiger Woods lived in Brazil he would not have had to coin the word “Cablanasian” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,8,394,520,20],"tags":[2051,2052,2054,2053,30,20756,105],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","category-usa","tag-audrey-t-mccluskey","tag-audrey-thomas-mccluskey","tag-black-film-centerarchive","tag-bloomington-herald-times","tag-miscegenation","tag-south-africa","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}