ANTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Racial Democracy, Favela, Societal Racism

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH1001
• Professor: Neil Maclean

Document Summary

Race does not exist in biology: various ideas about race (or racial ideologies) exist in different cultures, racial ideologies are cultural. All racial ideologies are contradictory and paradoxical. A central paradox: race does not exist, but racism and social hierarchies based on race do. Race and phenotype: some paradoxes in our racial ideologies. For most of us, our racial ideology is that race is: visible in appearance (phenotype, grounded in biology (dna, skin colour, blood) We look at racial ideologies in brazil in order to understand the cultural and historical grounding of racial ideologies. Brazils racial ideologies contain a different set of paradoxes than ours. People believe that race is not fixed in the body or its appearance. Ra(cid:272)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge o(cid:448)er a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s lifeti(cid:373)e. As a perso(cid:374)"s so(cid:272)io-economic status rises, that perso(cid:374) is (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed to (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:862)(cid:449)hiter(cid:863) There are (cid:374)o hard (cid:271)ou(cid:374)daries (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) ra(cid:272)es, ra(cid:272)e is a (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uu(cid:373), (cid:374)ot a (cid:862)(cid:272)ategory(cid:863)