Brazilians deny personal prejudice while overwhelmingly endorsing stereotyping beliefs
Evidence
Racismo cordial is racism’s everyday equivalent of humiliation with a human face. A survey in 2000 indicated that more than 90 percent of Brazilians think that racism exists in Brazil though only 10 percent confessed to expressing their own prejudices. Yet the overwhelming majority surveyed agreed with various more or less vicious expressions of stereotyping prejudice listed in the study. So “cordial racism” as a concept softens the edge of structural degradation racially ordered. It is to contemporary racial latinamericanization what “born again racism” is to racial americanization. Each alchemizes racial reference and the conditions for racist exclusion from the asserted authority of state sponsorship to the distributed and dispersed diffusion across the population individualized. It is civil society’s racism without responsibility, civility fronting for terms of extended dismissal. Structural dislocation, exclusion, debilitation, racially indexed, are buried, but buried alive. Racial reference vaporizes, racisms evaporating into the very air we breathe. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1794
Categorization
- XREF: A second identity/society context (Brazil, race) showing the same split between disavowed prejudice and endorsed stereotyping, supporting generalization of the gap beyond the US case — promising for the reader’s cross-axis test. — connects to: Most Brazilians acknowledge racism yet deny their own prejudice. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1794; Brazilian cordial racism is a mannered, race-denying form of exclusion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1790; Brazilians held normalized race prejudice alongside a proud tradition of racial equality — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3577 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Most Brazilians acknowledge racism yet deny their own prejudice.
#corroborates(0.96) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1794 - Brazilians held normalized race prejudice alongside a proud tradition of racial equality
#corroborates(0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3577 - Brazilian cordial racism is a mannered, race-denying form of exclusion
#expands(0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1790 - Prejudice and stereotypes can operate implicitly without perceivers’ awareness
#expands(0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2378 - Automatic race stereotypes operate regardless of self-reported prejudice
#corroborates(0.80) - Stereotypic beliefs slide to fit unchanging prejudiced attitudes
#expands(0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 835 - Pervasive prejudice still takes distinct forms across different societies
#qualifies(0.78) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 100 - Most Afro-Brazilian children internalize antiblack stereotypes and pro-white preferences
#exemplifies(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3586 - Stereotyping stems from ideological environments, not just individual self-interest
#expands(0.72)