This article explores the "elitist profile" of racial discrimination through eighty in-depth interviews with black professionals in Rio de Janeiro. The results show that interviewees describe their trajectories of social mobility through mechanisms that involve both socioeconomic and racial exclusion. Their perceptions of injustice, however, are more directly related to experiences of racial discrimination.
Rosemblatt,Karin Alejandra (Editor), Appelbaum,Nancy (Editor), and MacPherson,Anne S. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 1 microfiche
Notes:
Synopsis This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Includes Anne S. Macpherson's "Imagining the colonial nation: race, gender, and middle-class politics in Belize, 1888-1898" and Peter Wade's "Race and nation in Latin America: an anthropological view"
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
Vol. 6
Notes:
468 p, This collection of essays employs an analytic approach developed in the United States which sheds light on the workings of race in political-legal systems as diverse as South Africa, New Zealand, France and Latin and South America. The essays reveal how legal rules define racism so narrowly and make racial discrimination so difficult to prove, that inequality persists despite its symbolic extinction.
