L F Schwartzman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 44042 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L F Schwartzman |
| NOMBRES | L F |
| APELLIDO | Schwartzman |
| FIRMA | SCHWARTZMAN L F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4719-9171 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 220 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Racial Frontiers
While international asylum law includes race as the first protected category—followed by religion, nationality, particular group membership, and political opinion—Haitians’ ongoing racialised persecution and denial of refuge across the Americas reveals the failures of this framework. Drawing on academic literature, documentary evidence, and primary sources, we analyse the racial and neocolonial logics constituting Haitians’ experiences at home an…
Seeing African and Indigenous States and Societies
Race scholars often refer to the colonization of Indigenous peoples in the Americas and the enslavement of Africans as a founding moment in the making of today's racial hierarchies. Yet their narrative of this initial moment often mischaracterizes early European states, erases Indigenous and African states, and naturalizes racial group belonging. Such practices are counterproductive to the antiracist project. Following the lead of decolonial scho…
Canadian multiculturalism and Brazilian racial democracy in two newspapers
In this paper, I examine the shifting meanings of ‘culture’ in newspaper articles on multiculturalism in Canada and on racial democracy in Brazil from the 1950s to the 2010s. In the 1950s and 1960s, discourse on racial democracy in Brazil and multiculturalism in Canada relied on an idea of ‘culture’ akin to the notion of ‘civilization,’ i.e., an explicit recognition of the existence and particularity of the dominant language and religion and its …
Colour violence, deadly geographies, and the meanings of "race" in Brazil
This paper analyses the relationships between "race" and violent victimization, and between "race" and support for violent practices of social control in Brazil, using nationally representative survey data. I start from the premise that "race" is a set of relational practices rather than bounded "racial groups". I operationalize this relational understanding of "race" methodologically by triangulating three measures of "race" - self-identified "c…
The Integration of the White into the Community of Color, or How the Europeans Became Brazilian in the Twentieth Century
Studies of immigrant integration in Europe and North America generally assume that immigrants are less white and considered less “modern” than the nationals of the countries where they arrive. In this essay, my purpose is to examine what happens when we apply the idea of “immigrant integration” to European immigrants who arrived in Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. These immigrants and their descendants …
Not just racial quotas
This paper examines how affirmative action in Brazilian public universities has evolved from the start of the new millennium up to recent years. After an overview of the existing policies in public universities, we explain these patterns based on an analysis of the processes internal and external to the universities. Although these policies were initially thought of as racial quotas, class-based criteria have predominated, while the racial criter…
From Multiracial Subjects to Multicultural Citizens
This study examines how immigrant parents’ geographic origins correspond to their adult children's ethnic and racial self-classification; whether discrepancies are associated with socioeconomic status; and the implications of these patterns for assessing socioeconomic inequality. Using linked British census data, we identify immigrants’ children in 1971 and examine how they ethnically/racially self-classify in 2001. We find that fluidity in class…
Migrations des personnes hautement qualifiées au Brésil. De l'isolement à l'insertion internationale
Partant d'un recensement récent et de données administratives, et dans une perspective historique, nous nous intéressons dans cet article au degré de circulation internationale au Brésil, en particulier celle de personnes hautement qualifiées, et en analysons les conséquences et les implications. Le Brésil a connu des afflux massifs de migration internationale au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, mais est resté plus isolé depuis. Dernièrement, et…
From statistical category to social category
This article addresses the question of how and in what terms states constitute ethnicity and citizenship around statistical categories when these categories lack explicitly ethnic principles of classification. It does so based on a qualitative content analysis of the way that the German statistical category of 'persons with a migration background' is deployed in parliamentary debates on education. We argue that state actors in organized politics,…
Unexpected Narratives from Multicultural Policies
This paper investigates the ways in which the global spread of multicultural policies affects local ideas about race, inequality and diversity as evident in affirmative action policies in Brazilian universities. Our interviews with university administrators and university students indicate that, when implemented in Brazil, affirmative action acquired new meanings and predominantly class-based justifications. Such a transformation is illustrated b…
Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race
Seeing Like Citizens
This paper investigates how students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), one of the first Brazilian universities to adopt race-based quotas for admissions, interpret racial categories used as eligibility criteria. Considering the perspectives of students is important to understand the workings of affirmative action policies because UERJ's quotas require applicants to classify themselves. Students' interpretations of those categories…
Does Money Whiten? Intergenerational Changes in Racial Classification in Brazil
The idea that "money whitens" is a classic topic in the sociological literature on race in Brazil. This article estimates the extent to which socioeconomic status translates into racial boundary-crossing ("whitening" and "darkening") across generations. I do so by highlighting specifically how parents' racial classification of their children varies by status (i.e., parents' own educational levels). Results from a national household survey (PNAD 2…
Does Money Whiten? Intergenerational Changes in Racial Classification in Brazil
The idea that "money whitens" is a classic topic in the sociological literature on race in Brazil. This article estimates the extent to which socioeconomic status translates into racial boundary-crossing ("whitening" and "darkening") across generations. I do so by highlighting specifically how parents' racial classification of their children varies by status (i.e., parents' own educational levels). Results from a national household survey (PNAD 2…
From statistical category to social category
This article addresses the question of how and in what terms states constitute ethnicity and citizenship around statistical categories when these categories lack explicitly ethnic principles of classification. It does so based on a qualitative content analysis of the way that the German statistical category of 'persons with a migration background' is deployed in parliamentary debates on education. We argue that state actors in organized politics,…
Seeing Like Citizens
This paper investigates how students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), one of the first Brazilian universities to adopt race-based quotas for admissions, interpret racial categories used as eligibility criteria. Considering the perspectives of students is important to understand the workings of affirmative action policies because UERJ's quotas require applicants to classify themselves. Students' interpretations of those categories…
Unexpected Narratives from Multicultural Policies
This paper investigates the ways in which the global spread of multicultural policies affects local ideas about race, inequality and diversity as evident in affirmative action policies in Brazilian universities. Our interviews with university administrators and university students indicate that, when implemented in Brazil, affirmative action acquired new meanings and predominantly class-based justifications. Such a transformation is illustrated b…
From Multiracial Subjects to Multicultural Citizens
This study examines how immigrant parents’ geographic origins correspond to their adult children's ethnic and racial self-classification; whether discrepancies are associated with socioeconomic status; and the implications of these patterns for assessing socioeconomic inequality. Using linked British census data, we identify immigrants’ children in 1971 and examine how they ethnically/racially self-classify in 2001. We find that fluidity in class…
Colour violence, deadly geographies, and the meanings of "race" in Brazil
This paper analyses the relationships between "race" and violent victimization, and between "race" and support for violent practices of social control in Brazil, using nationally representative survey data. I start from the premise that "race" is a set of relational practices rather than bounded "racial groups". I operationalize this relational understanding of "race" methodologically by triangulating three measures of "race" - self-identified "c…
Racial Frontiers
While international asylum law includes race as the first protected category—followed by religion, nationality, particular group membership, and political opinion—Haitians’ ongoing racialised persecution and denial of refuge across the Americas reveals the failures of this framework. Drawing on academic literature, documentary evidence, and primary sources, we analyse the racial and neocolonial logics constituting Haitians’ experiences at home an…
Migrations des personnes hautement qualifiées au Brésil. De l'isolement à l'insertion internationale
Partant d'un recensement récent et de données administratives, et dans une perspective historique, nous nous intéressons dans cet article au degré de circulation internationale au Brésil, en particulier celle de personnes hautement qualifiées, et en analysons les conséquences et les implications. Le Brésil a connu des afflux massifs de migration internationale au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, mais est resté plus isolé depuis. Dernièrement, et…
Not just racial quotas
This paper examines how affirmative action in Brazilian public universities has evolved from the start of the new millennium up to recent years. After an overview of the existing policies in public universities, we explain these patterns based on an analysis of the processes internal and external to the universities. Although these policies were initially thought of as racial quotas, class-based criteria have predominated, while the racial criter…
Does Money Whiten? Intergenerational Changes in Racial Classification in Brazil
The idea that "money whitens" is a classic topic in the sociological literature on race in Brazil. This article estimates the extent to which socioeconomic status translates into racial boundary-crossing ("whitening" and "darkening") across generations. I do so by highlighting specifically how parents' racial classification of their children varies by status (i.e., parents' own educational levels). Results from a national household survey (PNAD 2…
Seeing Like Citizens
This paper investigates how students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), one of the first Brazilian universities to adopt race-based quotas for admissions, interpret racial categories used as eligibility criteria. Considering the perspectives of students is important to understand the workings of affirmative action policies because UERJ's quotas require applicants to classify themselves. Students' interpretations of those categories…
Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race
Unexpected Narratives from Multicultural Policies
This paper investigates the ways in which the global spread of multicultural policies affects local ideas about race, inequality and diversity as evident in affirmative action policies in Brazilian universities. Our interviews with university administrators and university students indicate that, when implemented in Brazil, affirmative action acquired new meanings and predominantly class-based justifications. Such a transformation is illustrated b…
From Multiracial Subjects to Multicultural Citizens
This study examines how immigrant parents’ geographic origins correspond to their adult children's ethnic and racial self-classification; whether discrepancies are associated with socioeconomic status; and the implications of these patterns for assessing socioeconomic inequality. Using linked British census data, we identify immigrants’ children in 1971 and examine how they ethnically/racially self-classify in 2001. We find that fluidity in class…
Migrations des personnes hautement qualifiées au Brésil. De l'isolement à l'insertion internationale
Partant d'un recensement récent et de données administratives, et dans une perspective historique, nous nous intéressons dans cet article au degré de circulation internationale au Brésil, en particulier celle de personnes hautement qualifiées, et en analysons les conséquences et les implications. Le Brésil a connu des afflux massifs de migration internationale au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, mais est resté plus isolé depuis. Dernièrement, et…
From statistical category to social category
This article addresses the question of how and in what terms states constitute ethnicity and citizenship around statistical categories when these categories lack explicitly ethnic principles of classification. It does so based on a qualitative content analysis of the way that the German statistical category of 'persons with a migration background' is deployed in parliamentary debates on education. We argue that state actors in organized politics,…
Not just racial quotas
This paper examines how affirmative action in Brazilian public universities has evolved from the start of the new millennium up to recent years. After an overview of the existing policies in public universities, we explain these patterns based on an analysis of the processes internal and external to the universities. Although these policies were initially thought of as racial quotas, class-based criteria have predominated, while the racial criter…
The Integration of the White into the Community of Color, or How the Europeans Became Brazilian in the Twentieth Century
Studies of immigrant integration in Europe and North America generally assume that immigrants are less white and considered less “modern” than the nationals of the countries where they arrive. In this essay, my purpose is to examine what happens when we apply the idea of “immigrant integration” to European immigrants who arrived in Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. These immigrants and their descendants …
Colour violence, deadly geographies, and the meanings of "race" in Brazil
This paper analyses the relationships between "race" and violent victimization, and between "race" and support for violent practices of social control in Brazil, using nationally representative survey data. I start from the premise that "race" is a set of relational practices rather than bounded "racial groups". I operationalize this relational understanding of "race" methodologically by triangulating three measures of "race" - self-identified "c…
Seeing African and Indigenous States and Societies
Race scholars often refer to the colonization of Indigenous peoples in the Americas and the enslavement of Africans as a founding moment in the making of today's racial hierarchies. Yet their narrative of this initial moment often mischaracterizes early European states, erases Indigenous and African states, and naturalizes racial group belonging. Such practices are counterproductive to the antiracist project. Following the lead of decolonial scho…
Canadian multiculturalism and Brazilian racial democracy in two newspapers
In this paper, I examine the shifting meanings of ‘culture’ in newspaper articles on multiculturalism in Canada and on racial democracy in Brazil from the 1950s to the 2010s. In the 1950s and 1960s, discourse on racial democracy in Brazil and multiculturalism in Canada relied on an idea of ‘culture’ akin to the notion of ‘civilization,’ i.e., an explicit recognition of the existence and particularity of the dominant language and religion and its …
Racial Frontiers
While international asylum law includes race as the first protected category—followed by religion, nationality, particular group membership, and political opinion—Haitians’ ongoing racialised persecution and denial of refuge across the Americas reveals the failures of this framework. Drawing on academic literature, documentary evidence, and primary sources, we analyse the racial and neocolonial logics constituting Haitians’ experiences at home an…
Sociology (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Race (biology (5 obras) · Ethnic group (4 obras)