{"id":6628,"date":"2010-04-15T04:52:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:06:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T19:06:58","slug":"triumphant-miscegenation-reflections-on-beauty-and-race-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6628","title":{"rendered":"Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/07256860601082954\" target=\"_blank\">Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=t713432188\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Intercultural Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=g770370972\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 28, Issue 1<\/a> (February 2007)<br \/>\npages 83-97<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/07256860601082954\">10.1080\/07256860601082954<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home.medewerker.uva.nl\/a.b.edmonds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Edmonds<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Amsterdam<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> racial mixture, <em>mesti\u00e7agem<\/em> has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the twentieth century. This paper approaches the role of mixture in Brazilian social life from the angle of aesthetics, looking both at Brazilian intellectual history and the commercial and medical beauty industry. It first discusses the aesthetics of race in the works of Brazilian scholar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilberto_Freyre\" target=\"_blank\">Gilberto Freyre<\/a>. Second, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how cultural constructions of race are reflected in the clinical practice of plastic surgery. Analysing cosmetic practices illuminates central tensions in the ideal of <em>mesti\u00e7agem<\/em>, but also reveals it as a distinct logic of race and beauty that contrasts with multiculturalism. As the beauty industry expands in the developing world, such cultural logics may not be erased but rather incited.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a770374102~fulltext=713240930\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 83-97 DOI: 10.1080\/07256860601082954 Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam In Brazil racial mixture, mesti\u00e7agem has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,459,125,8,394],"tags":[2779,2652,1021],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-alexander-edmonds","tag-gilberto-freyre","tag-journal-of-intercultural-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","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=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44459,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/44459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}