American dreams and Brazilian racial democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2616348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Mitchell (0000-0001-5834-8286, corresponding author), Sean T Mitchell (0000-0002-3573-4827, Rutgers University [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2015 |
| Issue | 73 |
| Pages | 41-54 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Focaal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fcl.2015.730104 |
| OpenAlex | W2319422676 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 31 |
The extensive literature critiquing the weakness of cross-class Afro-Brazilian solidarity is perhaps equaled in size by the structurally similar literature on the weakness of cross-race working-class solidarity in the United States. For many critics, marginalized or exploited people in Brazil and the United States do not have the political consciousness they ought to have, given apparently objective conditions. What if we started, instead, from E. P. Thompson's insight that class is a "cultural as much as an economic formation," that it is "a relationship and not a thing," acknowledging that political consciousness is the partially contingent result of culturally specific struggles and utopias, as much as of determinate historical conditions? Drawing on ethnographic research on conflicts between Afro-Brazilian villagers and Brazil's spaceport, supplemented by comparative data on the mobilization around inequalities in Brazil and in the United States, this article sketches a comparative anthropology of political consciousness that attempts to avoid the objectivizing pitfalls of the genre
Class consciousness · Consciousness · Democracy · Diversity (politics · Ethnography · Political consciousness · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Solidarity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Development, Ethics, and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology
The Twilight of Common Dreams
The wages of whiteness
Making Race and Nation
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Making of the English Working Class
Empire of Cotton
The Wages of Whiteness
Introduction
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
Negras in Brazil
Black Reconstruction in America
On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason
From "Racial Democracy" to Affirmative Action
Eighteenth‐century English society
The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street
Mapping the Margins
Não somos racistas
A memória do tempo de cativeiro no Maranhão
Re-Thinking Intersectionality
Mário de Andrade ainda vive? O ideário modernista em questão
World
How "Natives" Think
A integracao do Negro na sociedade de classes
A persistência da raça
Acts of Misrecognition
Space, Sovereignty, Inequality
Melted gold and national bodies
The Evidence of Experience
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |