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OverviewAs Latin America's flagship 'racial democracy,' Brazil is famous for its history of race mixture and fluid racial boundaries. Traditionally, scholars have emphasized that this fluidity has often led to whitening, where individuals seek classification in white, or lighter, racial categories. Yet, Back to Black documents a sudden reversal in this trend, showing instead that individuals are increasingly opting to identify with darker, and especially black, racial categories. Drawing on a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data, David De Micheli attributes this sudden reversal to the state's efforts at expanding access to education for the lower classes. By unleashing waves of upward mobility, greater education increased individuals' personal exposure to racial hierarchies and inequalities and led many to develop racial consciousness, further encouraging black identification. The book highlights how social citizenship institutions and social structures can work together to affect processes of identity politicization and the contestation of inequalities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David De Micheli (University of Utah)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009472395ISBN 10: 1009472399 Pages: 318 Publication Date: 17 October 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsList 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.Reviews'Back to Black provides a compelling explanation for the recent increase in the number of Brazilians who have self-identified as black. De Micheli employs a wealth of qualitative and quantitative evidence to show that the increasing educational access of poor Brazilians has reshaped their identities by increasing their exposure to information and social networks. Self-identified blacks, in turn, have tended to vote consistently for leftist candidates. The book is a model of clear writing and rigorous scholarship and has important implications for other Latin American countries, particularly given the rising educational levels across the region.' Raul Madrid, Professor, University of Texas, Austin 'In Back to Black, David De Micheli convincingly documents Brazil's surge in non-white racial identification and asks how this counter-intuitive 'reclassification reversal' occurred. His persuasive argument is that egalitarian social policies interact with and challenge racial hierarchies in ways that promote politicized group consciousness - even in a context of significant racial fluidity like Brazil. Evidence from multiple sources - including interviews, extensive field work, original survey experiments, administrative and survey data - demonstrates how massive state-led educational expansion produced a cascade of (unplanned) consequences that activated black and brown identities and transformed how these identities map onto politics. This groundbreaking contribution helps set a new agenda for comparative race and ethnic politics research, placing ethnoracial group formation at the center of our understandings of political contestation in Latin America.' Jana Morgan, Professor, University of Tennessee Author InformationDavid 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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