{"id":53179,"date":"2017-04-02T01:15:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53179"},"modified":"2017-04-02T01:15:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T01:15:15","slug":"latin-american-policy-series-3-racism-and-responses-to-racism-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53179","title":{"rendered":"Latin American Policy Series (3): Racism and Responses to Racism in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.brandtschool.de\/latin-american-policy-series-3-racism-and-responses-to-racism-in-latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Latin American Policy Series (3): Racism and Responses to Racism in Latin America<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.brandtschool.de\" target=\"_blank\">the bulletin: A Willy Brandt School Blog<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arivaldo Santos de Souza<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.brandtschool.de\/latin-american-policy-series-3-racism-and-responses-to-racism-in-latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.brandtschool.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/best-place-1612043-848x400.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article is a continuation of the Latin American Public Policy Series and briefly introducing the topic \u201cRacism and Responses to Racism in Latin America\u201d, building upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/info\/23144\/tanya_hernandez\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Hern\u00e1ndez\u00b4s<\/a> thoughts, whose book: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27563\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Subordination in Latin America \u2013 The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response<\/a>\u201d (Cambridge Press, 2012) which I just translated into Portuguese. This analysis seeks to intrigue Latin Americans to think more deeply about the way people of African descent in their respective countries were (and still are) mistreated based on the arguments presented by Tanya Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 150 million people of African descent, members of one of the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_diaspora\" target=\"_blank\">African Diasporas<\/a> over time, live in Latin America. Even though, we people of African descent make up around 1\/3 of total population in Latin American, members of the African diaspora make up more than 40 percent of the poor in Latin America and have been marginalized as undesirable to society since the abolition\u00a0of slavery\u00a0across the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that \u201cracism does not exist\u201d is hegemonic in Latin America, despite the increasing number of black social movements across the region. The \u201cmyth of racial democracy\u201d, which supports that the racial mixture\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\"><em>mestizaje<\/em><\/a> in Castellano and <em>mesti\u00e7agem<\/em> in Portuguese) in a population is a symptom of racial harmony\u00a0and absence of inequalities based in race is still influential even among scholars and well-educated citizens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.brandtschool.de\/latin-american-policy-series-3-racism-and-responses-to-racism-in-latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a continuation of the Latin American Public Policy Series and briefly introducing the topic \u201cRacism and Responses to Racism in Latin America\u201d, building upon Tanya Hern\u00e1ndez\u00b4s thoughts, whose book: \u201cRacial Subordination in Latin America \u2013 The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response\u201d (Cambridge Press, 2012) which I just translated into Portuguese. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,1467,8,26,23674,394],"tags":[26754,2113,5161,2112,2897,26755],"class_list":["post-53179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-socialscience","tag-arivaldo-santos-de-souza","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez","tag-the-bulletin","tag-the-bulletin-a-willy-brandt-school-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53179","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=53179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53181,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53179\/revisions\/53181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}