{"id":7218,"date":"2010-05-16T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:32:33","slug":"book-reviewcompte-rendu-stanley-r-bailey-legacies-of-race-identities-attitudes-and-politics-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7218","title":{"rendered":"Book Review\/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ejournals.library.ualberta.ca\/index.php\/CJS\/article\/viewFile\/7553\/6413\" target=\"_blank\">Book Review\/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Journal of Sociology<br \/>\nVolume 35, Number 1 (2010)<br \/>\npages 189-191<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/individual.utoronto.ca\/schwartzman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luisa Farah Schwartzman<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5101\" target=\"_blank\">Stanley R. Bailey<\/a><\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=565\" target=\"_blank\">Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil<\/a><\/em>. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, 304 pp. paper (978-0-8047-6278-6), hardcover (978-0-8047-6277-9)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=565\" target=\"_blank\">Legacies of Race<\/a><\/em> is a must-read for anyone who thinks they understand \u201crace\u201d in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a>, since it successfully challenges many assumptions in the literature. It is also an important contribution to the literature on racial attitudes in the US, highlighting their distinctiveness. Finally, its discussion of the myth of racial democracy provides food for thought for debates on whether multiculturalist discourse can address emerging\u00a0issues of racism in Canadian society.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, foreign observers have wondered why the Brazilian Black Movement has had limited success mobilizing Brazilian blacks to fight for their rights, despite the existence of glaring inequalities correlated with skin color. Since the 1970s, social scientists have blamed this lack of black mobilization on the myth of \u201cracial democracy\u201d \u2014 the idea of Brazil as a unified mixed-race nation \u2014 used by Brazilian elites to downplay the extent of racial discrimination for most of the twentieth century. Scholars argued that black Brazilians failed to mobilize in large numbers because they were duped into thinking that racism was not a problem. Bailey demonstrates that this theory simply does not square with current survey data&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire book review <a href=\"http:\/\/ejournals.library.ualberta.ca\/index.php\/CJS\/article\/viewFile\/7553\/6413\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review\/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 35, Number 1 (2010) pages 189-191 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, 304 pp. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,83,19,21,6,26,394],"tags":[3019,3018,199],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-brazil","category-canada","category-latincarib","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-luisa-farah-schwartzman","tag-stanley-bailey","tag-stanley-r-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","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=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}