Orpheus and power

Description:

From recent data on disparities between Brazilian whites and non-whites in areas of health, education, and welfare, it is clear that vast racial inequalities do exist in Brazil, contrary to earlier assertions in race relations scholarship that the country is a "racial democracy." Here Michael George Hanchard explores the implications of this increasingly evident racial inequality, highlighting Afro-Brazilian attempts at mobilizing for civil rights and the powerful efforts of white elites to neutralize such attempts.

subjects: Blacks,  Politics and government,  Race identity,  Race relations,  Brazil, race relations,  Brazil, politics and government,  Blacks, brazil,  Blacks, race identity,  Black people,  Movimento Negro Unificado (Brazil)

Places: Brazil,  Rio de Janeiro,  São Paulo

Times: 20th century