Abstract
Scholarship on Brazil's black movements has examined their development from the early twentieth century to the present, highlighting challenges black activists have faced in their efforts to confront Brazilian racism. During the 1970s, Brazilian sociologists explored how the Brazilian ideologies of racial democracy and mestiçagem (race mixing) stymied efforts to recognize and challenge racism, with scholar-activist Abdias do Nascimento critiquing the Brazilian whitening ideology as a form of genocide that sought to extinguish the black population. These critiques departed from influential studies published by Brazilian and US researchers during the mid- and late twentieth century that promoted Brazil's image as a nonracist society, a tradition dating back to the 1933 publication of Casa Grande & Senzala by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780470674871 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405197731 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2013 |
Keywords
- Abdias do Nascimento
- affirmative action
- Afro-Brazilians
- anti-racist policies
- black movement
- black women
- Brazil
- quilombos
- racial democracy