Blackness And Social Mobility In Brazil

Author : Doreen Joy Gordon
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030907651
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackness and Social Mobility in Brazil written by Doreen Joy Gordon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Neil Turner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656013098
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism in Brazil: Inequality in Educational Opportunities and Social Mobility written by Neil Turner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jean Claude García Zamor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Mobility of Negroes in Brazil written by Jean Claude García Zamor and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pierre-Michel Fontaine
Publisher : CAAS Publications University of California Los Angeles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Class, and Power in Brazil written by Pierre-Michel Fontaine and published by CAAS Publications University of California Los Angeles. This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. Sansone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403982341
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackness Without Ethnicity written by L. Sansone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black-white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced by the US and to a lesser degree Western Europe. Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race and move it away from American dominated notions that are not adequate to describe racial difference in other countries (and also in the countries where the notions originated). He also explores the effects of globalization on constructions of race.

Author : Anani Dzidzienyo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Position of Blacks in Brazilian Society written by Anani Dzidzienyo and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316952975
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Blackness written by Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jennifer Roth-Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520293800
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and the Brazilian Body written by Jennifer Roth-Gordon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil's "comfortable racial contradiction"--"Good" appearances : race, language, and citizenship -- Investing in whiteness: middle-class practices of linguistic discipline -- Fears of racial contact : crime, violence, and the struggle over urban space -- Avoiding blackness : the flip side of boa aparência -- Making the mano : the uncomfortable visibility of blackness in politically conscious Brazilian hip hop -- Conclusion : "seeing" race

Author : Rebecca L. Reichmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043364
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race in Contemporary Brazil written by Rebecca L. Reichmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of writings comes from Brazilian researchers on issues of race in their country. They include race and colour classification systems; access to education, employment and health; and inequalities in the judiciary and politics.

Author : Vânia Penha-Lopes
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498537790
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil written by Vânia Penha-Lopes and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using affirmative action to decrease racial inequality is the latest chapter of a long tradition of comparing Brazil and the United States with regard to race. Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice is timely for both countries as they struggle with racial justice in higher education. This book responds to the United States’ dismantling of affirmative action programs and a belief that they have run their course. Data show that, while affirmative action policies have contributed to a significant increase in the representation of non-Whites in the U.S. middle class, other segments of the population have yet to take full advantage of such policies. In Brazil, this book engaged with the need to understand the first results of a public policy expected to promote major social change, as it represents the first time that country admitted the existence of racial inequality in its core and took measures toward combating it despite any subsequent controversy or dissent.