{"id":54506,"date":"2017-07-14T22:26:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54506"},"modified":"2017-07-15T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T21:15:22","slug":"study-investigates-marks-of-racism-in-interracial-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54506","title":{"rendered":"Study investigates marks of racism in “interracial families”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Study investigates marks of racism in “interracial families”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Ag\u00eancia FAPESP<\/a>
\nS\u00e3o Paulo Research Foundation
\n2017-06-14<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Tadeu Arantes<\/strong>
\nAg\u00eancia FAPESP<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSociety’s racial hierarchies are reproduced in families and interact with feelings, researcher says (photo: Wikimedia)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

One hundred and twenty-nine years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil<\/a>, and despite the myth of racial democracy<\/a>, race-based prejudice is still widespread in Brazilian society \u2013 so much so that it can be found even in \u201cinterracial families\u201d. This is the conclusion of a study by social psychologist Lia Vainer Schucman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Schucman undertook the study during her postdoctoral research at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) with FAPESP\u2019s support<\/a>\u00a0and in collaboration with Felipe Fachim<\/a>. Her supervisor was Belinda Mandelbaum<\/a>, who heads the Family Studies Laboratory at the university\u2019s Psychology Institute (IP-USP).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe set out to discover whether and how society\u2019s racial hierarchies are reproduced in families whose members classify themselves differently with regard to \u2018race\u2019 \u2013 as \u2018white\u2019, \u2018black\u2019 or \u2018mixed-race\u2019 \u2013 and how these hierarchies coexist and interact with their emotions or feelings,\u201d Schucman told Ag\u00eancia FAPESP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In addition to performing an exhaustive review of the specialized literature, which took three years, Schucman personally interviewed 13 families from different regions of Brazil. She has written a book about her findings: Fam\u00edlias Inter-raciais: tens\u00f5es entre cor e amor<\/em> (\u201cInterracial Families: Tensions between Color and Love<\/em>\u201d). The book will be available later in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy interest in researching the topic arose initially from my interaction with people from these families, people who experienced \u2018racial contradictions\u2019 in their own skins, as it were,\u201d Schucman said. \u201cIt happened when I was finishing up my PhD research, which was on \u2018whiteness\u2019. Because of my research, I started to be invited to give lectures quite frequently, and after the lectures, people would often come up to tell me about cases of suffering due to racism in their own families. This happened many times. These conversations led me to realize that families could be a key to understanding \u2018interracial\u2019 relationships in the wider context of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schucman\u2019s starting-point was the conviction that \u201crace\u201d is not a biological given but a social construct. It is a construct based on phenotypes, she argues, which engenders and sustains profound material and symbolic inequality in society and which affects the daily lives of millions of people…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One hundred and twenty-nine years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and despite the myth of racial democracy, race-based prejudice is still widespread in Brazilian society \u2013 so much so that it can be found even in \u201cinterracial families\u201d. This is the conclusion of a study by social psychologist Lia Vainer Schucman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,414,125,8,394],"tags":[15437,3429,27082,27282,15438,27186,27243,27080,15439],"class_list":["post-54506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-agencia-fapesp","tag-antonio-sergio-alfredo-guimaraes","tag-belinda-mandelbaum","tag-felipe-fachim","tag-jose-tadeu-arantes","tag-lia-schucman","tag-lia-v-schucman","tag-lia-vainer-schucman","tag-sao-paulo-research-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54506","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=54506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54513,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54506\/revisions\/54513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}