"This dissertation examines social categorization and national identity in Brazil, specifically among the middle classes of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The research is based on ethnographic interviews, analysis of mass media texts and popular song lyrics, and participant observation conducted over 22 months. The study shows how the ideology of race mixture, or mesticagem, brings together the semantic domains of social class and "race." Elucidation of this discursive field helps to explain the puzzling fact of Brazilian "racial democracy": the commonly expressed belief in the absence of racism despite apparently racially structured patterns of inequality and widespread use of racial terminology in everyday social life. The author argues that the use of racial terms both expresses and enacts forms of social exclusion structured fundamentally along class lines."
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