{"id":59854,"date":"2020-06-30T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59854"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:13:06","slug":"every-brazilian-even-the-light-skinned-fair-haired-one-carries-about-him-on-his-soul-when-not-on-soul-and-body-alike-the-shadow-or-at-least-the-birthmark-of-the-aborigine-or-the-negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59854","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery Brazilian, even the light-skinned fair-haired one carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow or at least the birthmark of the aborigine or the negro&#8230;\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>After slavery, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazil<\/a> didn\u2019t institute prohibitions of interracial relationships or draconian racial distinctions, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States<\/a> did. The absence of a rigid racial taxonomy led to an extraordinarily mixed country, with single families composed of multiple skin tones, and far more racial fluidity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery Brazilian, even the light-skinned fair-haired one carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow or at least the birthmark of the aborigine or the negro,\u201d wrote the 20th-century Brazilian sociologist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilberto_Freyre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilberto de Mello Freyre<\/a>, who examined the country\u2019s racial mixing in the 1930s. A \u201cparadise,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1978\/06\/05\/archives\/many-blacks-shut-out-of-brazils-racial-paradise-brazil-emphasizes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he declared Brazil<\/a>, \u201cin respect to race relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Terrence McCoy, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In Brazil, the death of a poor black child in the care of rich white woman brings a racial reckoning<\/a>,\u201d June 28, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/brazil-racism-black-lives-matter-miguel-otavio-santana\/2020\/06\/26\/236a2944-b58b-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/brazil-racism-black-lives-matter-miguel-otavio-santana\/2020\/06\/26\/236a2944-b58b-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After slavery, Brazil didn\u2019t institute prohibitions of interracial relationships or draconian racial distinctions, as the United States did. The absence of a rigid racial taxonomy led to an extraordinarily mixed country, with single families composed of multiple skin tones, and far more racial fluidity. \u201cEvery Brazilian, even the light-skinned fair-haired one carries about him on [&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":[30951,2652,30945,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-59854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-gilberto-de-mello-freyre","tag-gilberto-freyre","tag-terrence-mccoy","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59854","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=59854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59855,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59854\/revisions\/59855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}