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The Brazilian Black Guard Racial Conflict in Post-Abolition Brazil*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Michael R. Trochim
Michael R. Trochim*
Affiliation:
Ferrum College, Ferrum, Virginia
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The existence of racial democracy in Brazil has long since come into serious question. The work of sociologists like Florestan Fernandes and historians like Carl Degler has demonstrated the fact of racial discrimination in Brazil, yet the history of race relations in Brazil still seems to stand in contrast to that of the United States. Occurrences of widespread racial violence and the organization of militant movements for social, economic, and political equality take up little space in the historical literature dealing with Brazil. The apparent lack of endemic racial conflict in Brazil has been explained as the result of the marginalization of black people in Brazilian capitalism or as the result of a social mechanism like Degler's “mulatto escape hatch,” which separates the mass of black people from their natural leaders. Consequently, a consciousness of racial solidarity did not develop as the basis for political organization. Without such organization, black people could not effectively confront the white power structure on the issues of race, and, ultimately, class discrimination.

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Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , January 1988 , pp. 285 - 300
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1988

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The author would like to thank the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Foundation for providing the fellowship which made his research in Brazil possible, and Ferrum College for providing financial assistance during the writing phase of his work.

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