Skin color and social mobility in Brazil
Author | : Danielle Watts Toussaint |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Danielle Watts Toussaint |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Neil Turner |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3656013098 |
Essay aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politische Soziologie, Majoritäten, Minoritäten, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the debate on race relations in Brazil. The main focus of this work is to examine inequality of opportunities between whites and nonwhites and how class and racial discrimination impacts outcomes for social advancement. Although many scholars, intellectuals and authors have contributed to an analysis of this debate, race relations in Brazil remains a very confounding and provocative issue. The rapid and tremendous growth that Brazil is currently experiencing has brought increased stratification between races and classes and a recurrence of the public debate on this complex issue. This paper will trace the history of this debate, the myth of racial democracy, the Afro-Brazilian militant movement and provide a brief overview of the existing quantitative research on Brazilian race relations.
Author | : Edward E. Telles |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 140083743X |
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation. More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that fair-skinned Brazilians continue to be privileged and hold a disproportionate share of wealth and power. In this sociological and demographic study, Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations. He shows that both schools have it partly right--that there is far more miscegenation in Brazil than in the United States--but that exclusion remains a serious problem. He blends his demographic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, history, and political theory to try to "understand" the enigma of Brazilian race relations--how inclusiveness can coexist with exclusiveness. The book also seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations. In the end, Telles contends, the traditional myth that Brazil had harmonious race relations compared with the United States encouraged the government to do almost nothing to address its shortcomings.
Author | : Doreen Joy Gordon |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2022-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030907651 |
This book examines the emergence of the black middle classes in urban Brazil, after 30 years of black mobilization and against the backdrop of deep economic, cultural, and political transformations taking place in recent decades within the country. One of the consequences of such transformations is said to be the restructuring of gender, race, and class relations. Utilizing qualitative research techniques such as ethnography, interviews, life histories, and focus groups among Afro-descendant families in the Northeast region of the country, the book explores contemporary race, class, and gender inequalities and their impact on daily lived experience. It reveals the dynamics underlying upward mobility, the diverse modes and experiences of social ascent into the middle classes, and the everyday negotiations involved in establishing one's status in the socio-racial hierarchy, which are not captured by other, more "macro" lenses. While some of these patterns are not peculiar to black people, this book argues that "race" shaped the contours and possibilities of social mobility in particular ways. This book is critical reading for specialists in the fields of inequality and race, class, and gender relations.
Author | : Jean Claude García Zamor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Black people |
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Author | : Edward Eric Telles |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469617838 |
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
Author | : Edward Eric Telles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2017-12-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316946746 |
This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a theoretical framework that takes into account racial group attachment and the experience of racial discrimination, it seeks to explain Afro-Brazilian political behavior with a focus on affirmative action policy and Law 10.639 (requiring that African and Afro-Brazilian history be taught in schools). It fills an important gap in studies of Afro-Brazilian underrepresentation by using an intersectional framework to examine the perspectives of everyday citizens. The book will be an important reference for scholars and students interested in the issue of racial politics in Latin America and beyond.
Author | : Yvonne Marie White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Blacks |
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Author | : Anani Dzidzienyo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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