{"id":51074,"date":"2017-02-06T02:37:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51074"},"modified":"2017-02-06T22:59:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:59:13","slug":"the-checkered-past-of-brazils-new-race-court-jwji-race-difference-colloquium-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51074","title":{"rendered":"The Checkered Past of Brazil\u2019s New Race Court (JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Checkered Past of Brazil\u2019s New Race Court (JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium Series)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Jones Room, Woodruff Library
\nThe James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference<\/a>
\nEmory University
\nAtlanta, Georgia 30322
\nMonday, 2017-02-06, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruth Hill<\/strong><\/a>, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Professor\u00a0of Spanish
\nVanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n

A categorical crisis around racially-mixed persons has become a legal quagmire in Brazil<\/a>. In August 2016, the Brazilian government announced the formation of the Racial Court (Tribunal Racial<\/em>) to confront the steady stream of legal challenges that has beset the racial segment of the country\u2019s Quotas System (Sistema de Cotas<\/em>). The latter is an affirmative-action program giving preference to the disabled, the economically-disadvantaged, graduates of public schools, and specific racial groups (Amerindians<\/a> and persons of African ancestry) in government offices and higher education. Litigation and media attention are centered on the program\u2019s interstitial racial category, pardo<\/em>. The category preto<\/em>\u2014the straightforward \u201cblack\u201d in Brazil until it was jettisoned in educated quarters for negro<\/em>, \u201cnegro\u201d\u2014and the category pardo<\/em> (of European and an undefined amount of African and\/or native origins) are often treated as subsets of the category negro<\/em>. Still, color not descent is invoked when it is stated that persons \u201cof pardo<\/em> color\u201d or \u201cpreto<\/em> color\u201d are eligible for the racial quotas for government posts, which are set aside \u201cfor negros<\/em> and pardos<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether colors or categories, where does pardo<\/em> end and branco<\/em> (\u201cwhite\u201d) or negro<\/em> begin? In other words, when does afrodescendente<\/em> (\u201cAfro-descendant\u201d) end and branco<\/em> begin? In this Race and Difference Colloquium, Ruth Hill (Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Professor\u00a0of Spanish, Vanderbilt University) argues that the pardo<\/em> problem of today streams from the first global and systematic investigation into racial admixture, in the sixteenth century, which came on the heels of legislation to \u201cuplift\u201d Catholic neophytes in the Iberian<\/a> empires. Those centuries-old arguments over mixed-race neophytes anticipated the moral and legal dilemmas of Brazil\u2019s present-day affirmative-action program.<\/p>\n

The Race and Difference Colloquium Series<\/a>, a weekly event on the Emory University campus, features local and national speakers presenting academic research on contemporary questions of race and intersecting dimensions of difference. The James Weldon Johnson Institute is pleased to have the Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript and Rare Book Library as major co-sponsors of the Colloquium Series.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Checkered Past of Brazil\u2019s New Race Court (JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Jones Room, Woodruff Library The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2017-02-06, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Ruth Hill, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Professor\u00a0of Spanish Vanderbilt University, Nashville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,21,459,13,8,26,820,394],"tags":[4732,22845,25928,25927],"class_list":["post-51074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-religion","category-socialscience","tag-emory-university","tag-james-weldon-johnson-institute-for-the-study-of-race-and-difference","tag-ruth-hill","tag-the-james-weldon-johnson-institute-for-the-study-of-race-and-difference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074","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=51074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51075,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074\/revisions\/51075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}