{"id":7251,"date":"2010-05-17T20:44:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:32:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:32:32","slug":"race-and-multiraciality-in-brazil-and-the-united-states-converging-paths-by-g-reginald-daniel-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7251","title":{"rendered":"Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review: Skidmore]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/00182168-2007-156\" target=\"_blank\">Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review: Skidmore]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hahr.dukejournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hispanic American Historical Review<\/a><br \/>\nVolumes 88, Number 2 (May 2008)<br \/>\npages 348-349<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/00182168-2007-156\" target=\"_blank\">10.1215\/00182168-2007-156<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Skidmore\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas E. Skidmore<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1933, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilberto_Freyre\" target=\"_blank\">Gilberto Freyre<\/a> published his classic <em>Casa-grande y senzala<\/em>. Although it was ostensibly about the uniquely Portuguese origins of Brazilian civilization, it included innumerable <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Obiter_dicta\" target=\"_blank\">obiter dicta<\/a> about the difference between the role of race in Portuguese and English America. Freyre argued that the relatively harmonious Brazilian race relations were due to more or less smooth Afro-European <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>, which contrasted so sharply with the rigid \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>\u201d of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In the years since Freyre published his classic, Brazilian and U.S. scholars and social critics have been debating Freyre\u2019s claims. But the issue has been viewed largely through the prism of each country\u2019s distinct racial experience. In the earlier literature, in particular, relatively few scholars achieved an analysis that could be described as truly objective. That situation began to change several decades ago, as scholars emerged who were generally familiar with both countries. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/daniel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Reginald Daniel<\/a><\/strong> is certainly prominent among that number and has given us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1895\" target=\"_blank\">systematic work<\/a> on what is a most complex issue, making the volume useful for scholars in a variety of disciplines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Skidmore-Race-and-Multiraciality-Review.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review: Skidmore] Hispanic American Historical Review Volumes 88, Number 2 (May 2008) pages 348-349 DOI: 10.1215\/00182168-2007-156 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University In 1933, Gilberto Freyre published his classic Casa-grande y senzala. Although it was ostensibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,83,21,459,8,394,20],"tags":[142,3025,750,3024],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-hispanic-american-historical-review","tag-thomas-e-skidmore","tag-thomas-skidmore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","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=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}