Login

Publications  •  Project Statistics

Glossary  •  Schools  •  Disciplines
People Search: 
   
Title/Abstract Search: 

Dissertation Information for Kimberly Faith Jones

NAME:
- Kimberly Faith Jones

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1995)

ADVISORS:
- E. Bradford Burns

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Karen B. Sacks
- Boniface Obichere

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: A luta continua. Afro-Brazilian mobilization within the context of racial democracy: O movimento negro, 1978-1994

Abstract: Gilberto Freyre, author of the classic The Masters and the Slaves, was the first Brazilian to successfully articulate the Brazilian ideology of racial democracy. Freyre proposed that through the process of miscegenation, Brazil had created a multiracial society free of the racism that plagued the United States. This ideology became an important factor in shaping Brazilian national identity and a mechanism by which thoughts of black mass movements were diffused. The European-Brazilian elite has used racial democracy as an ideology to prevent Afro-Brazilians from fully claiming their African heritage and translating this racial consciousness into some form of political action to better their position in Brazilian society. Without the existence of a healthy Afro-Brazilian identity or the recognition of persisting racial inequalities and discrimination, Afro-Brazilians can never hope to mobilize their community against the realities of racial democracy.

The Afro-Brazilian population did mobilize at various times in Brazilian history. The resulting movements involved both a cultural reclaiming of African heritage and forms of political action seeking to enhance the socioeconomic status of Afro-Brazilians. The movimento negro questions the reality of racial democracy in Brazil. This research project examines and analyzes the successes and failures of the movimento negro in order to discover what has been done to further implement the reality of the racial democracy doctrine.

Although Brazil has never espoused a policy of legal discrimination, the moral fiber and the social character of the country remains in fact based on racial prejudice. The basic obstacle that Afro-Brazilians must overcome in their quest for racial equality is the social control mechanism or racial democracy. This is the obstacle that limits knowledge of the existence of the movimento negro to the Afro-Brazilian community. The organizations of the movimento negro have successfully raised the level of consciousness among Afro-Brazilians themselves, but they must now focus on raising the level of consciousness among the general Brazilian population.

MPACT Scores for Kimberly Faith Jones

A = 0
C = 0
A+C = 0
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2009-01-25 10:38:18

Advisors and Advisees Graph

generating graph, please reload

Students under Kimberly Faith Jones

ADVISEES:
- None

COMMITTEESHIPS:
- None