Brazil’s nominal racial democracy masks stark black-white structural disparities

Evidence

This instability, stabilized only in the mixed product, makes almost any organization ordered around the terms of input difficult, though not impossible. For one, the input categories themselves are kept unstable, people dropping in and out of them depending on personal circumstance and prospect, relationships and social relations more broadly. For another, such organizing is largely reactive, and requires considerable conscientizing and consciousness-raising simply to enable the conditions of conceptual possibility for the organization to emerge. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1200 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial democracy rendered structural inequality invisible and individualized; Brazil’s racial democracy enshrined mixing while secretly indexing superiority to white European stock — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1062; Brazil’s myth of racial democracy rested on romanticized slavery apologetics — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 113 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• The instability of racial categories undermines organizing around race in Latin America #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1200