{"id":53445,"date":"2017-04-12T02:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T02:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53445"},"modified":"2017-04-12T02:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T02:47:45","slug":"if-interracial-relationships-were-widespread-prior-to-the-abolition-of-slavery-in-1888-they-became-a-matter-of-national-duty-afterward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53445","title":{"rendered":"If interracial relationships were widespread prior to the abolition of slavery in 1888, they became a matter of national duty afterward."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If interracial relationships were widespread prior to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slavery_in_Brazil#The_end_of_slavery\" target=\"_blank\">abolition of slavery in 1888<\/a>, they became a matter of national duty afterward. That didn\u2019t happen \u201cjust because we all happened to get along,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/seculodiario.com.br\/25984\/17\/mirtes-e-a-busca-pelo-engrandecimento-do-movimento-negro-em-solo-capixaba\" target=\"_blank\">Mirtes Santos<\/a>, a law student and <a href=\"https:\/\/coletivonegrada.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Coletivo Negrada<\/em><\/a> member. \u201cIt was a way to erase black identity.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil\u2019s<\/a> government launched a full-on propaganda and policy effort to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=34892\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cwhiten\u201d Brazil<\/a>: It closed the country\u2019s borders to African immigrants, denied black Brazilians the rights to lands inhabited by the descendants of runaway slaves, and subsidized the voyage of millions of German and Italian workers, providing them with citizenship, land grants, and stipends when they arrived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cleuci de Oliveira, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53253\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil\u2019s New Problem With Blackness<\/a>,\u201d <em>Foreign Policy<\/em>, April 5, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/04\/05\/brazils-new-problem-with-blackness-affirmative-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/04\/05\/brazils-new-problem-with-blackness-affirmative-action\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If interracial relationships were widespread prior to the abolition of slavery in 1888, they became a matter of national duty afterward. That didn\u2019t happen \u201cjust because we all happened to get along,\u201d said Mirtes Santos, a law student and Coletivo Negrada member. \u201cIt was a way to erase black identity.\u201d<\/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":[26788,26787,26833],"class_list":["post-53445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-cleuci-de-oliveira","tag-foreign-policy","tag-mirtes-santos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53445","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=53445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53447,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53445\/revisions\/53447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}