Paving Paradise
The Road From “Racial Democracy” to Affirmative Action in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18983840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sérgio Da Silva Martins (0000-0002-9608-1233, Greater Rio de Janeiro University, corresponding author), Carlos Alberto Medeiros (0009-0004-0780-1254, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro), Elisa Larkin Nascimento (0000-0001-5521-109X, Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 787-816 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021934704264006 |
| OpenAlex | W1966689263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 3 |
The recent adoption of affirmative action policies in Brazil has generated a public debate starkly in contrast to the traditionally hegemonic discourse of “racial democracy.” Many a student of race relations in Brazil would have predicted that such developments could never occur. But historical forerunners of the concept are to be found in proposals made by the Afro-Brazilian social movement in the 1940s and 1950s, advanced particularly by the Black Experimental Theater, and bills introduced by Abdias do Nascimento in both houses of the Brazilian Congress. The development of the black movement’s demands and political articulation, leading to the country’s active participation in the 3rd World Conference Against Racism in Durban in 2001, gave a major impulse to the evolution of affirmative action programs and their implementation in Brazil. International support and participation in this process is fundamentally important to the continued success of black social movement initiatives
Affirmative action · Articulation (sociology) · Democracy · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil
Growing up otherwise
Domestic Work and the Afropessimist Geographies of Suffering in Brazilian Literature
The social aftershocks of a migration crisis
Excavating for Economics in Africana Studies
From privileges to rights
Abdias Nascimento and Brazilian Politics
Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship
‘Africa has a history’
Centering African-Descendant Women in HIV/Aids Research, Policy, and Praxis in Brazil
The Singing Voice and Racial Politics on the Brazilian Evangelical Music Scene
Rosana Paulino and Tiago Sant’Ana
Embodied voices
Moving beyond the binary
Black Writers of the World, Unite!”
Policy and ideology collide
Educational Inequality and Affirmative Action in Brazil
Bossa Nova and Black Awakening
Academic and diversity consequences of affirmative action in Brazil
The Symbolic Power of Color
Moral and Instrumental Rationales for Affirmative Action in Five National Contexts
Racial Mixing and National Integration in Latin America
Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru
Learning to Transgress
A Place of their own
Remaking Racial Inclusion
The Mascogo/Black Seminole Diaspora
Class, Place And Blackness In São Paulo's Gospel Music Scene
Disparagement humour and gendered racism on social media in Brazil
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |