LEADER 04538nam 2200541 450 001 9910819660703321 005 20230124182600.0 010 $a0-271-02884-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271028842 035 $a(CKB)1000000000470925 035 $a(MH)010100078-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224004 035 $a(DE-B1597)584080 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271028842 035 $a(OCoLC)1301547072 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000470925 100 $a20200929d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRace and multiraciality in Brazil and the United States $econverging paths? /$fG. Reginald Daniel 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d[2006] 210 4$d©2006 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 365 p. )$cill. ; 311 $a0-271-02883-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [299]-334) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The historical foundation -- Eurocentrism : racial formation and the master racial project -- The Brazilian path : the ternary racial project -- The Brazilian path less traveled : contesting the ternary racial project -- The U.S. path: the binary racial project -- The U.S. path less traveled : contesting the binary racial project -- Converging paths -- A new U.S. racial order : the demise of Jim Crow segregation -- A new Brazilian racial order : a decline in the racial democracy ideology -- The U.S. convergence : toward the Brazilian path -- The Brazilian convergence : toward the U.S. path -- Epilogue : the U.S. and Brazilian racial orders : changing points of reference -- References -- Index. 330 $aAlthough both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a ?racial democracy,? with a ternary system of classifying people into whites (brancos), multiracial individuals (pardos), and blacks (pretos) supporting the idea that social inequality was primarily associated with differences in class and culture rather than race. In the United States, by contrast, a binary system distinguishing blacks from whites by reference to the ?one-drop rule? of African descent produced a more rigid racial hierarchy in which both legal and informal barriers operated to create socioeconomic disadvantages for blacks. But in recent decades, Reginald Daniel argues in this comparative study, changes have taken place in both countries that have put them on ?converging paths.? Brazil?s black consciousness movement stresses the binary division between brancos and negros to heighten awareness of and mobilize opposition to the real racial discrimination that exists in Brazil, while the multiracial identity movement in the U.S. works to help develop a more fluid sense of racial dynamics that was long felt to be the achievement of Brazil?s ternary system. Against the historical background of race relations in Brazil and the U.S. that he traces in Part I of the book, including a review of earlier challenges to their respective racial orders, Daniel focuses in Part II on analyzing the new racial project on which each country has embarked, with attention to all the political possibilities and dangers they involve. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies$2bisacsh 607 $aBrazil$xRace relations 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 610 $a0-271-02883-1. 610 $aDaniel G. Reginald. 610 $ablacks pretos. 610 $abrancos multiracial pardos. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. 676 $a305.800981 700 $aDaniel$b G. Reginald$f1949-$01685440 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819660703321 996 $aRace and multiraciality in Brazil and the United States$94061519 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress