When Conviviality Hides Inequality. Lélia Gonzalez on Brazilian Racial Democracy – TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
By Rúrion Melo. The idea of racial democracy, also known as the myth of racial democracy, is not just a mistaken belief. In fact, it encompasses a set of mechanisms that regulate social practices, power relations, forms of social interaction, and collective thinking within a historically established system of ethnic-racial domination. Based on Lélia Gonzalez’s analysis, we will investigate which social actions concretize, support, and at the same time hinder the perception of everyday rac...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
