{"id":50838,"date":"2016-12-21T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50838"},"modified":"2017-07-23T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:29:57","slug":"are-brazilians-latinos-what-their-identity-struggle-tells-us-about-race-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50838","title":{"rendered":"Are Brazilians Latinos? What their identity struggle tells us about race in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/are-brazilians-latinos-what-their-identity-struggle-tells-us-about-race-in-america-64792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Are Brazilians Latinos? What their identity struggle tells us about race in America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-20<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.columbia.edu\/people\/profile\/396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frances Negr\u00f3n-Muntaner<\/a>,<\/strong> Professor of English and Comparative Literature<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bikini_waxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bikini waxes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazilian_hair_straightening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keratin hair blowouts<\/a> and all-you-can-eat steakhouses.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, all three are closely associated with the word \u201cBrazilian.\u201d Yet, although none of these things are linked to Latino identity, one of the questions that journalists frequently ask me is, \u201cAre Brazilians Latinos?\u201d Surprisingly, many Brazilian-Americans also ask me the same question. As one of my students put it, \u201cBecause \u2018Brazilian\u2019 is not an option in any census, job or college form, you get older and wonder, where do I fit in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The confusion is warranted.<\/p>\n<p>It illuminates how U.S. public discourse and policy classifies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/pew-57m-hispanics-now-in-u.s.-17-of-population-54-of-total-growth\/article\/2601396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">57 million people<\/a> from very different ethnic, racial and national backgrounds into the categories of \u201cLatino\u201d and \u201cHispanic.\u201d That Brazilians do not quite fit the box enables us to probe the terms \u201cLatino\u201d and \u201cHispanic\u201d and their implications. This is important at a time when Latinos are reaching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/09\/15\/facts-for-national-hispanic-heritage-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 percent<\/a> of the U.S. population&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/are-brazilians-latinos-what-their-identity-struggle-tells-us-about-race-in-america-64792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, all three are closely associated with the word \u201cBrazilian.\u201d Yet, although none of these things are linked to Latino identity, one of the questions that journalists frequently ask me is, \u201cAre Brazilians Latinos?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,33,8413,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[25826,25829,7470,25825,5628,25824],"class_list":["post-50838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-communications","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-carmen-miranda","tag-caroline-braga","tag-frances-negron-muntaner","tag-luciano-gomes","tag-the-conversation","tag-walyce-almeida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50838","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=50838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54618,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50838\/revisions\/54618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}