Color-Race Categories and "Racial" Discrimination in Brazil

该项目支持美国的一项合作研究。 人类学家和一位巴西同事。 他们将研究如何 两套不同的巴西“种族” 人口普查访谈期间的术语会影响 巴西人自认为是“非白人”。 他们 假设改变巴西人口普查使用的术语 将人们识别为“混血”（而不是白色或黑色）将改变 自我认同为“白色”的人的比例， 这种变化将受到社会经济地位的影响。 分裂 巴西巴伊亚一个小镇的人口普查将作为一项 test. 在社会经济地位方面， 受访者将被提供每一个选择。 这项研究很重要，因为巴西有着复杂的种族歧视。 文化中，对黑人程度的歧视是 受身体状况影响的“种族”类别的流动性 和社会经济因素。 了解来源 像巴西这样的社会中的歧视可以帮助规划者 像美国这样的二元“种族”社会， 种族主义

This project supports the collaborative research of a U.S. anthropologist and a Brazilian colleague. They will study how the presentation of two different sets of Brazilian "racial" terms during census interviews affects the percentage of Brazilians who identify themselves as "non-white". They hypothesize that changing the term that the Brazilian census uses to identify people as "mixed" (not White or Black) will change the proportion of people self-identifying as "white", and that this change will be affected by socio-economic status. A split census of a small town in Bahia, Brazil will be carried out as a test. Controlling for socio-economic status, half the respondents will be offered each choice. This research is important because Brazil has a complex racial culture, in which discrimination against degree of Blackness is moderated by fluidity in "racial" categories affected by physical and socio-economic factors. Understanding the sources of discrimination in a society like Brazil can help planners in a binary "racial" society such as the U.S. moderate the effects of racism.