{"id":56620,"date":"2018-07-01T05:14:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56620"},"modified":"2018-07-01T05:14:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:14:46","slug":"in-brazil-however-the-often-admirable-blurring-of-racial-boundaries-is-a-modern-reality-that-rather-than-stemming-from-colorblindness-is-tainted-with-the-sinister-origins-of-stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56620","title":{"rendered":"In Brazil, however, the often admirable blurring of racial boundaries is a modern reality that \u2014 rather than stemming from colorblindness \u2014 is tainted with the sinister origins of state-sanctioned attempts to dilute, even dissolve, blackness."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paulo_C\u00e9zar_Caju\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Paulo C\u00e9sar] Lima\u2019s<\/a> words point to a painful and somewhat paradoxical consequence of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil\u2019s<\/a> racial fluidity. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America\u2019s<\/a> politics of racial purity, which culminated in the notion that even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-drop of African blood made a person legally black<\/a>, fostered solidarity among those targeted by discriminatory laws. In Brazil, however, the often admirable blurring of racial boundaries is a modern reality that \u2014 rather than stemming from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_blindness_(race)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorblindness<\/a> \u2014 is tainted with the sinister origins of state-sanctioned attempts to dilute, even dissolve, blackness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cleuci de Oliveira, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is Neymar Black? Brazil and the Painful Relativity of Race<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, June 30, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/30\/opinion\/is-neymar-black-brazil-and-the-painful-relativity-of-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/30\/opinion\/is-neymar-black-brazil-and-the-painful-relativity-of-race.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Paulo C\u00e9sar] Lima\u2019s words point to a painful and somewhat paradoxical consequence of Brazil\u2019s racial fluidity. America\u2019s politics of racial purity, which culminated in the notion that even one-drop of African blood made a person legally black, fostered solidarity among those targeted by discriminatory laws. In Brazil, however, the often admirable blurring of racial boundaries [&hellip;]<\/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":[28812,26788,2640,28811,28813,2327],"class_list":["post-56620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-caju","tag-cleuci-de-oliveira","tag-new-york-times","tag-paulo-cezar-caju","tag-paulo-cezar-lima","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56620","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=56620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56621,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56620\/revisions\/56621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}