Racial Whitening In Brazil

Chica Da Silva Chica da Silva was a freed slave living in Brazil during the eighteen century. While there are many false myths and stereotypes connected to Chica, Furtado’s biography’s goal was to find out the truth. To not only discover what Chica Da Silva was really like, but to also defend her people from the stereotypes that have followed them for many years. Furtado took a different approach to researching the famous freed slave. Instead of using popular beliefs and myths to make assumptions on what Chica must have been like based on her race and family background.

Although the country of Brazil fashions itself as a racial democracy, and promotes the Afro-Cuban culture through programs and tourism, very few Black have ascended to important government or corporate

After reading “Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination” by Deborah L. Rhode and “The Makeup Tax” by Olga Khazan, both readings focus on the concerns of appearance discrimination. Appearance discrimination can be validated, yet it cannot. For instance, it is valid to appearance discriminate an individual when an employer is interviewing him or her because it is the first quality employers examine. An employer is often likely to not hire an individual if he or she comes into the interview wearing informal attire, in contrast to an individual showing up to the interview with formal clothing. Nonetheless, it is not okay to validate appearance discrimination when it comes to an individual’s weight.

After the death of Chica da Silva and João Fernandes their thirteen children went on to live their lives in paradoxical positions. Even though the children came from a rich background, were highly educated, and had grown up in a life of luxury, they were still segregated against based on their skin color. The children still had to prove that they were white enough to fit into this society. For example, Rita Quiteria one of Chica’s and João’s daughters, was arrested for the crime of concubinage even though she was living with her soon to be husband consensually. But due to the fact that Rita was of mixed race it was viewed as a crime to be living with a Portuguese second lieutenant without being married.

In the Americas race and place of birth played an important rule. The sociedad de castas is based on racial origins, where European or whites were at the top of the caste system and black slaves or Native Americans were at the bottom. This American based social caste system separated people based on the color of their skin, where the lighter your skin is the high you are in the social system. The separation of classes was mostly prominent in the Americas where mestizos, creoles,and peninsulares were seperated do to their mixed race and Europeans, whites, black slaves, and Native Americans were separated do to the color of their

Everlena Goddard Latin Anti-Blackness is a very real and extremely under discussed topic that is affecting millions of Latin people today. This disguised and rarely talked about topic is the practice of discrimination and prejudice against dark skinned, mixed race or non predominantly white Latinxs by other Latinx people. This distressing treatment of Latin(o)(a)s is not only a national issue, it is a global one as well. This issue is ongoing and was and has always been apparent yet unidentified and unaddressed. To rid the Latin community of this ingrained racism we need to call attention to this topic.

Long had a specific interpretations for the black race in the Caribbean as he said “the same bestial manners, stupidity, and vices, which debase their brethren on the continent, who seem to be distinguished from the rest of mankind.” And although there had not been many sources for historians in that time to interpret anything about Indians, there had been many encounters with black people. This is especially important to know when considering historical narratives about race in colonial and post-colonial Latin America. So again it is important to know that there is already a pre-conceived understanding of the black race before Africans made their way to Latin America as slaves. The black race in Latin America were not the only ones to face the dilemma of bias, as the blending of people from various races such as white, indigenous, or black caused mixed race.

As slaves were brought into the New World, they became integrated into society, especially when wars of liberation from Spanish colonial rule in Latin America broke out. “In the post-slavery period black people in the US were separated from whites; in Latin America, Afro-descendants were absorbed into society. This, in theory at least, did not take racial ancestry into account: Mestizaje, or the mixing of races, was seen as a part of nation-building” (Brodzinsky, 2013). Even so, the discrimination of black in the Latino community still showed.

Racial disparity in Brazil is best explained in Abdias Nascimento article, Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Alternative. “I believe that the Black and mulatto the Brazilian of colour must have a racial counter-ideology and a counter position in socioeconomic terms. The Brazilian of colour must strive simultaneously for a double change: socioeconomic change in the country, and change in race and colour relations.” In 1968, through these words, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician Abdias Nascimento called attention to the potentially divergent but essentially related nature of the two main objectives of Afro-Brazilian activism: first, to effect concrete change in the distribution of social and economic power in Brazil, and second,

“Slavery In The Dominican Republic and How It Affected the Natives Racial Identity” By definition the Dominican Republic is a Caribbean Hispaniola Island that is shared with Haiti to the West. The Dominican Republic today is a major tourist destination and has become a major source of sugar, coffee, and other exports. But the Dominican Republic had to suffer a lot in order to prevail the way they did, undergoing being enslaved by the Spaniards while on the other side of the island the Haitians were enslaved by the french hence the obvious difference in languages and cultures. The main difference is that the Dominican Republic lost their racial identity and until the present day are unaware of their true racial identity. Slavery affects every country and person differently but in the Dominican Republic, slavery took away the nation’s identity.

Although, in the case of Rodriguez in his article of “Complexion” He had racism not from the outside world but from his own family which made it difficult to escape it since it was there he came home. Eventually Rodriguez internalized never trying to fight against it and had tried different ways to get rid of his own skin in ways of scraping or homemade

Although broken up thematically, each portion contributes to the central narrative of prevalent racism against Afro-Cubans. In part two, De La Fuente examines the labor market as well as the social mobility of Cubans. Speaking to labor concerns, De La Fuente relates equality of opportunity to economic success, therefore placing Afro-Cubans on a lower level of social mobility. His emphasis on European and white immigration as being praised does well to support his claim of inherent racism. The exclusion of Afro-Cubans in the labor force fixes itself to the idea of a certain Cuban identity, the central theme of the work.

In order to keep up with the labor, plantation owners began importing slaves from Africa, which later led to a great mix in the country’s race and ethnicity. Once these sugar plantations began to harvest a successful profit, other European countries, like France and Spain, began to gain more and more interest in the land. This interest led to a great increase in wealth and immigration towards Brazil. These rival colonial

Lima, Peru is very diverse, but the description mostly focused on the whites, or Spaniards, and their nobility; consequently, the two authors keep bringing up how these people were decedents of Spain. The authors were born in Spain possibly contributing to them speaking so highly of the subject. They then write about how the kings of Spain applauded a family who had Incan lineage, possibly to keep a good relation with them because the Spanish did conquer the Incan Empire two hundred years prior. The excerpt forms a positive and superior view of Spanish decedents. In turn, that makes some of the people of Lima a superior race in the eyes of Spaniards attributing to the theory of a superior race and racism, a problem that still exists today (3).

This essay, both intentionally and unintentionally gives us a glimpse of contemporary Latin American race relations,