{"id":50845,"date":"2016-12-21T22:38:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50845"},"modified":"2016-12-21T22:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:38:59","slug":"we-see-race-in-shades-light-skinned-dark-skin-cafe-con-leche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50845","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe see race in shades: light-skinned, dark skin, caf\u00e9 con leche.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apart from the mixed messages of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a> and the census, another source of uncertainty lies in the different racial schemes prevalent in the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/chapters\/chapter-9\/brazilians-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. and Brazil<\/a>. While Americans often perceive people of mixed ancestry <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2010\/12\/one-drop-rule-persists\/\" target=\"_blank\">as nonwhite<\/a>, Brazilians tend to understand race <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.fr\/books?id=kMOiAgAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">in a continuum<\/a> and consider not only appearance or descent but also social and economic status.<\/p>\n<p>As Luciano Gomes, a Brazilian immigrant who lives in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> and works as a driver, observes, \u201cWe see race in shades: light-skinned, dark skin, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caf%C3%A9_con_leche\" target=\"_blank\">caf\u00e9 con leche<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frances Negr\u00f3n-Muntaner, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50838\" target=\"_blank\">Are Brazilians Latinos? What their identity struggle tells us about race in America<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Conversation<\/em>, December 20, 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/are-brazilians-latinos-what-their-identity-struggle-tells-us-about-race-in-america-64792\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/are-brazilians-latinos-what-their-identity-struggle-tells-us-about-race-in-america-64792<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from the mixed messages of Hollywood and the census, another source of uncertainty lies in the different racial schemes prevalent in the U.S. and Brazil. While Americans often perceive people of mixed ancestry as nonwhite, Brazilians tend to understand race in a continuum and consider not only appearance or descent but also social and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7470,25825,5628],"class_list":["post-50845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-frances-negron-muntaner","tag-luciano-gomes","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50845","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=50845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50846,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50845\/revisions\/50846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}