{"id":51154,"date":"2017-01-13T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51154"},"modified":"2017-01-13T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:06:20","slug":"any-definition-of-what-it-is-to-be-black-cannot-be-external-to-the-individual-race-is-a-social-construction-without-scientific-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51154","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAny definition of what it is to be black cannot be external to the individual. \u2026 Race is a social construction, without scientific basis.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yet there are many Brazilians \u2013 including other black activists \u2013 who think that the tribunals are a terrible idea. Petronio Domingues, a historian with the Federal University of Sergipe who studies the fight for racial equality in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a>, said it\u2019s absurd to think that there are characteristics that can be evaluated objectively to determine race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re looking only at a person\u2019s appearance, and that doesn\u2019t define race,\u201d he said. \u201cAny definition of what it is to be black cannot be external to the individual. \u2026 Race is a social construction, without scientific basis.\u201d Nor is there any evidence that proves that black people with very dark skin suffer more prejudice than those who are called <em>pardo<\/em>, or brown, he added, so it makes no sense to give more \u201cpoints\u201d to someone whose skin is darker or hair\u00a0curlier.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stephanie Nolen, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50585\" target=\"_blank\">Black or white?<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em>, December 12, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/black-or-white-in-brazil-a-panel-will-decide-foryou\/article33295036\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/black-or-white-in-brazil-a-panel-will-decide-foryou\/article33295036\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet there are many Brazilians \u2013 including other black activists \u2013 who think that the tribunals are a terrible idea. Petronio Domingues, a historian with the Federal University of Sergipe who studies the fight for racial equality in Brazil, said it\u2019s absurd to think that there are characteristics that can be evaluated objectively to determine [&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":[25710,20608,8908],"class_list":["post-51154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-petronio-domingues","tag-stephanie-nolen","tag-the-globe-and-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154","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=51154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51156,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154\/revisions\/51156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}