Paving Paradise

The Road From “Racial Democracy” to Affirmative Action in Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18983840
AutoresSérgio Da Silva Martins (0000-0002-9608-1233, Greater Rio de Janeiro University, autor correspondente), 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)
Ano2004
Volume34
Fascículo6
Páginas787-816
Data de publicação2004-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934704264006
OpenAlexW1966689263
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas3

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