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"This book documents and explains a recent paradigm shift in Brazil's racial politics and subjectivity in recent decades. It engages major theories in ethnoracial politics, documents an understudied empirical phenomenon, and develops a novel theoretical argument about identity politicization and the shifting dynamics of Brazilian racial politics"--
List of contents
List of tables; List of figures; 1. Introduction; 2. The puzzle of racial reclassification; 3. Theory: racial reclassification as political identity formation; 4. Education as a mechanism of exposure; 5. Education and reclassification: testing the hypothesis; 6. Affirmative action and reclassification; 7. Implications for national politics; 8. Conclusion; References; Appendix A. supplementary information to chapters two and three; Appendix B. supplementary information to chapter four; Appendix D. supplementary information to chapter five; Appendix C. supplementary information to chapter six; Appendix E. supplementary information to chapter seven.
About the author
David De Micheli is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. He was previously Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. De Micheli's research has appeared in World Politics, Government and Opposition, and Latin American Politics and Society.
Summary
This book documents and explains a recent paradigm shift in Brazil's racial politics and subjectivity in recent decades. It engages major theories in ethnoracial politics, documents an understudied empirical phenomenon, and develops a novel theoretical argument about identity politicization and the shifting dynamics of Brazilian racial politics.
Foreword
This book documents and explains an underexamined paradigm shift in Brazil's racial politics and subjectivity in recent decades.
