Discussing Three Racial Debates in Brazil

Analyzing the Race Issues in Tent of Miracles

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220105.136How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tent of Miracles; racial ideology; cultural integration; homogeneous group; negative stereotype

Abstract

Brazilian racial issues have always been the center of attention in many sociologists’ and anthropologists’ studies. Based on different perspectives and data, they came to a dissimilar understanding of racial ideology in Brazil. This paper discusses three heated debates on Brazilian racial ideology and shares the author’s opinions on them from a literary point of view. Through reading the Brazilian novel, Tent of Miracle, I focus on the race issues mentioned in the text. The first section of the paper concerns cultural integration and segregation. My point is that it seems that cultural integration is something transfigured by some scholars and people see only this side of culture but ignore the cultural segregation in their daily lives. The second section focuses on the conflict that whether the browns and blacks consist of a homogeneous group. For this question, I have come to the conclusion that in most cases, the mixed-race and the blacks can be seen as a group together. The last section discusses the stereotype of colored people. Previous studies have shown that people often associate colored people with negative words. However, after reading the novel, I find that blacks and colored people do not always display negative aspects. To some degree, this paper enriches the previous study on racial ideology in Brazil from a new perspective.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiangqi Yang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - Discussing Three Racial Debates in Brazil
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 745
EP  - 750
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.136
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.136
ID  - Yang2022
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