After racial democracy: Contemporary puzzles in race relations in Brazil, Latin America and beyond from a boundaries perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 794-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graziella Moraes Silva
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Racial Democracy

scholarly journals Corrigendum

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 828-828
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Made In

Silva GM (2016) After racial democracy: Contemporary puzzles in race relations in Brazil, Latin America and beyond from a boundaries perspective. Current Sociology 64(5): 794-812. DOI: 10.1177/0011392115590488 The author would like to draw attention to the following correction. On p.802 of this article, where it is written: “[…] scholars who want to underplay the importance of race in Brazil tend to see this as evidence that race is not as central, or at least not a factor of discrimination for a large percentage of non-whites (Fry, 2005)” This section should read: “[…] scholars who emphasize the convergence of opinions tend to see this as evidence of a more successful policy of cultural integration that illustrates understandings of race as less essentialized (Fry, 2005)”. This correction does not change the main arguments made in the article.

Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Grieb ◽  
Robert Brent Toplin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

Afro-Latin Soul and Hip-Hop

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Nava
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
New World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores the history of African and Spanish musical fusions. In terms of race relations in the New World specifically, music has frequently been the occasion for an exchange of ideas and sounds that has brought together various cultures, transforming conflicting and clashing relations into harmonious streams of sound. Hence, lingering affinities from medieval Al-Andalus have been the inspiration for African and Spanish conjunctions and collaborations in modern times and have resulted in novel, hybrid inventions, everything from salsa and samba to funk and hip-hop. This chapter focuses on hip-hop within this context, though it also takes a look at the cultural soil of Latin America to appreciate the roots and branches of African and Spanish blends in the New World.

Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
John F. Bratzel ◽  
Leslie B. Rout ◽  
Robert Brent Toplin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

From Slaves to Citizens? Tannenbaum and the Debates on Slavery, Emancipation, and Race Relations in Latin America

2010 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro de la Fuente
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

AbstractWhy isSlave and Citizen, Frank Tannenbaum's influential comparative book on slavery and race relations, still referenced by modern scholars? How is it that a book that is frequently described as flawed continues to inform contemporary scholarship on race and slavery? This article seeks to answer these questions by reconstructing some of the scholarly debates sparked bySlave and Citizen. Specifically, the article discusses how some of the central premises of Tannenbaum's approach continue to inform the work of current scholars. Three of these premises are discussed in some detail: first, that “Anglo” and “Latin” America constituted two separate entities; second, that race relations in each area were fundamentally different; and third, that differences in modern race relations could only be explained by their divergent “slave systems.”

scholarly journals Race, culture, and history: Charles Wagley and the anthropology of the African Diaspora in the Americas

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Hay
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Local Community ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
Social Race ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The University

When I came to the University of Florida in 1981, I was informed that Charles Wagley was not accepting new graduate students. After my first class with Wagley, he agreed to be my advisor and mentor and I became the last student he accepted. Though better known for his sensitive and pioneering ethnography of indigenous and peasant populations and his influential anthropological/historical overviews of Brazil and Latin America, Wagley and his students' contributions to the study of Afro-American cultures and race relations in the Americas are considerable. Among the important concepts that Wagley articulated were 'social race', 'Plantation America', and the 'amorphous and weakly organized local community without clear boundaries in space or membership'. Wagley guided my dissertation research in Haiti. In it I developed his concept by proposing 'cultural amorphousness' as a 'total cultural style' (following Kroeber) of African Diaspora cultures in the Plantation American cultural sphere: a primary organizing principle that has proved to be an effective adaptation to plantation and its successor societies.

scholarly journals Ações afirmativas e o horizonte normativo da democracia racial (Affirmative actions and the normative horizon of racial democracy)

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (26) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Ignacio José Godinho Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Current Century ◽  
The Impact

<p>Este artigo faz uma síntese das percepções intelectuais sobre as relações raciais no Brasil e avalia o impacto das políticas de ação afirmativa ao longo do século em curso. Assinala, também, que o caráter plural da tácita coalizão que sustentou o fortalecimento das políticas de ação afirmativa na agenda política brasileira nos últimos anos sugere a possibilidade de constituição de uma nova crença compartilhada, em que a noção de democracia racial afaste-se de seu paradigma descritivo e ideológico, para converter-se num horizonte normativo, que não mascare o racismo e as desigualdades raciais, mas sim defina os objetivos a perseguir na luta para sua superação e os caminhos para alcançá-los.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>The article provides an overview of the intellectual perceptions of race relations in Brazil and evaluates the impact of affirmative action policies over the current century. Points out, finally, that the plural character of tacit coalition that supported the strengthening of affirmative action policies in the Brazilian political agenda in recent years suggests the possibility of setting up a new shared belief in the notion of racial democracy move away from its descriptive and ideological paradigm, to become a normative horizon that does not mask racism and racial inequalities, but set the objectives to be pursued in the fight to overcome it and the ways to achieve them.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: History. Policy. Racism. Affirmative action. Racial democracy.</p>

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