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Unesco and the Study of Race Relations in Brazil: Regional or National Issue?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Marcos Chor Maio
Marcos Chor Maio*
Affiliation:
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
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The literature on the cycle of studies on Brazilian race relations written in the 1950s, supported by UNESCO, has considered it a milestone that offered solid findings about the variety of such relations and the existence of racial prejudice and discrimination in Brazilian society. Some evaluations of these studies have asserted that the results of the UNESCO Project frustrated expectations that Brazil could be used as a positive example for race relations and an instrument in the struggle against racism in the period following the Holocaust. This research note takes a different stand in arguing that from the early stages of the organization of the project, Brazilian, French, and U.S. social scientists favored broadening the geographical scope under investigation because they were aware of several patterns of race relations and racial prejudice in Brazil. Originally, a limited and idealized regional focus was to center on the state of Bahia, but soon the scope of investigation became almost national in including Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Pernambuco.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 118 - 136
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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This research note was translated from Portuguese by José Augusto Drummond. I wish to express my thanks to Jens Boel, Chief of the UNESCO Archives, José Augusto Drummond, Sharon Kellum, and the three anonymous LARR reviewers for their helpful comments. This study originated in my doctoral dissertation, sponsored by CAPES/Fulbright. One version was presented to the Latin American Studies Association in Chicago, 24–26 September 1998.

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