Color-Race Categories and "Racial" Discrimination in Brazil

该项目支持一位美国人类学家和一位巴西同事的合作研究。他们将研究在人口普查访谈中使用两套不同的巴西“种族”术语如何影响巴西人认为自己是“非白人”的比例。他们假设，改变巴西人口普查中用来确定“混血儿”(非白人或黑人)的术语将改变自认为是“白人”的人的比例，而且这种变化将受到社会经济地位的影响。作为测试，将对巴西巴伊亚的一个小镇进行分裂人口普查。考虑到社会经济地位，一半的受访者将被提供每种选择。这项研究很重要，因为巴西有着复杂的种族文化，在这种文化中，对黑人程度的歧视受到自然和社会经济因素影响的“种族”类别的流动性的影响，从而缓和了对黑人程度的歧视。了解像巴西这样的社会中歧视的根源，可以帮助像美国这样的二元“种族”社会的规划者缓和种族主义的影响。

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.