Back to Black: racial reclassification and political identity formation in Brazil

As Latin America's flagship 'racial democracy,' Brazil is famous for its history of race mixture and fluid racial boundaries. Traditionally, scholars have emphasized that this fluidity has often led to whitening, where individuals seek classification in white, or lighter, racial categ...

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1. Verfasser: Micheli, David De (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:As Latin America's flagship 'racial democracy,' Brazil is famous for its history of race mixture and fluid racial boundaries. Traditionally, scholars have emphasized that this fluidity has often led to whitening, where individuals seek classification in white, or lighter, racial categories. Yet, Back to Black documents a sudden reversal in this trend, showing instead that individuals are increasingly opting to identify with darker, and especially black, racial categories. Drawing on a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data, David De Micheli attributes this sudden reversal to the state's efforts at expanding access to education for the lower classes. By unleashing waves of upward mobility, greater education increased individuals' personal exposure to racial hierarchies and inequalities and led many to develop racial consciousness, further encouraging black identification. The book highlights how social citizenship institutions and social structures can work together to affect processes of identity politicization and the contestation of inequalities
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Introduction -- The puzzle of racial reclassification -- Theory : racial reclassification as political identity formation -- Education as a mechanism of exposure -- Education and reclassification : testing the hypothesis -- Affirmative action and reclassification -- Implications for national politics -- Conclusion
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 300 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009472401
DOI:10.1017/9781009472401

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