{"id":56350,"date":"2018-05-02T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56350"},"modified":"2018-05-03T23:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T23:53:23","slug":"the-myth-of-brazils-racial-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56350","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Brazil\u2019s Racial Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/blog\/jonathas-de-andrade-eu-mestico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Myth of Brazil\u2019s Racial Democracy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aperture<\/a><br \/>\n2018-04-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameliarina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amelia Rina<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Brooklyn, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/blog\/jonathas-de-andrade-eu-mestico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JDA-17-PH-017_installed-at-AandB.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/jonathasdeandrade-eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathas de Andrade<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/jonathasdeandrade-eng\/me-mestizo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eu, mesti\u00e7o<\/a><\/em>, 2017\u201318<br \/>\nCourtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>In a new exhibition, <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/jonathasdeandrade-eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathas de Andrade<\/a> confronts his country\u2019s complicated past and present.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a> is renowned in the world for its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial democracy<\/a>,\u201d begins anthropologist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Wagley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Wagley<\/a> in the 1952 study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Race and Class in Rural Brazil<\/em><\/a>. Produced by Columbia University and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UNESCO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNESCO<\/a>, the text describes ethnographic studies performed by Wagley and his colleagues in four regions of Brazil. In each region, men and women from what they determined to be the four major racial groups\u2014<em>caboclo<\/em> (indigenous and Afro-Brazilian), <em>preto<\/em> (Afro-Brazilian), <em>mulato<\/em> (Afro-Brazilian and white European), and <em>branco<\/em> (white European)\u2014were shown photographs of other Brazilians from these categories and then asked to assign them different traits, such as most\/least attractive, best\/worst worker, most\/least honest, most\/least wealthy, et cetera. This binary restriction was one of the study\u2019s major flaws that first intrigued Brazilian artist <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/jonathasdeandrade-eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathas de Andrade<\/a>, and inspired his recent project, <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/jonathasdeandrade-eng\/me-mestizo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Eu, mesti\u00e7o<\/em><\/a>, currently on view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexanderandbonin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander and Bonin<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/blog\/jonathas-de-andrade-eu-mestico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new exhibition, Jonathas de Andrade confronts his country\u2019s complicated past and present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,83,21,459,1196,8],"tags":[28603,28599,28601,28602,28600,147],"class_list":["post-56350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-alexander-and-bonin","tag-amelia-rina","tag-aperture","tag-charles-wagley","tag-jonathas-de-andrade","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56350","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=56350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56358,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56350\/revisions\/56358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}