{"id":55713,"date":"2018-02-13T02:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55713"},"modified":"2018-02-13T02:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:07:55","slug":"goodbye-racial-democracy-brazilian-identity-official-discourse-and-the-making-of-a-black-heritage-site-in-rio-de-janeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55713","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye \u2018Racial Democracy\u2019? Brazilian Identity, Official Discourse and the Making of a \u2018Black\u2019 Heritage Site in Rio de Janeiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/blar.12636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Goodbye \u2018Racial Democracy\u2019? Brazilian Identity, Official Discourse and the Making of a \u2018Black\u2019 Heritage Site in Rio de Janeiro<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1470-9856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bulletin of Latin American Research<\/a><br \/>\nSpecial Issue: <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/blar.2018.37.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reflections on Repression and Resistance: The Vivid Legacies of Dictatorship in Brazil<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/blar.2018.37.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2018<\/a><br \/>\nPages 73\u201386<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/blar.12636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1111\/blar.12636<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/sspp\/departments\/kbi\/Research\/Post-Doctoral-Research\/Dr-Andre-Cicalo.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Andr\u00e9 Cicalo<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>King&#8217;s College London, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article explores the racial thinking in Brazilian governance exposed during the creation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=29191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Circuit of African Heritage<\/a> in the port area of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a> from 2011 on. The Circuit and the policy discourses that have surrounded its establishment are visibly framed within a philosophy of ethno-racial recognition and multiculturalism, which apparently suggests a rupture from the long-established discourse of mixture and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial democracy<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a>. Nonetheless, a careful analysis of the creation of the Circuit of African Heritage indicates that policy discourse is not conclusively unsettling the country&#8217;s traditional faith in a shared, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_blindness_(race)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colour-blind<\/a> national identity.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article in <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/blar.12636\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HTML<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/blar.12636\/epdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article explores the racial thinking in Brazilian governance exposed during the creation of a Circuit of African Heritage in the port area of Rio de Janeiro from 2011 on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,459,8,394],"tags":[21042,1866,28024,6727],"class_list":["post-55713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-andre-cicalo","tag-bulletin-of-latin-american-research","tag-circuit-of-african-heritage","tag-rio-de-janeiro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55713","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=55713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55714,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55713\/revisions\/55714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}