{"id":6825,"date":"2014-06-04T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=6825"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:32:47","slug":"inclusionary-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2014\/06\/04\/inclusionary-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Inclusionary Discrimination&#039;: Family Policing of Interracial Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Chinyere Osuji, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11133-013-9268-2\">&ldquo;Divergence or Convergence in the US and Brazil: Understanding Race Relations Through White Family Reactions to Black-White Interracial Couples,&rdquo; <em>Qualitative Sociology<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2014<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Much of the research on race relations in the US and Brazil places the two societies in\u00a0separate camps. For example, the US is usually understood as a nation with a strict racial hierarchy, where blacks and whites occupy opposite poles. On the contrary, Brazil is conceived of as more of a \u201cracial democracy,\u201d where racial boundaries are blurred and social inequalities are predominantly class-based.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11133\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Qualitative Sociology<\/i><\/a>, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/chinyereosuji.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinyere Osuji<\/a> adds to the growing body of literature that aims to complicate these simple conceptions of race relations in both countries. Using comparative data from interviews with 87 individuals in black-white relationships, Osuji looks at the lived reality of interracial couples in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles, exploring how they negotiate racial boundaries through family interactions. Focusing on couples\u2019 interactions with their families, Osuji finds trends that are emblematic of the prominent racial discourses that exist in either society. In the US, for instance, she discovers that families tend to take a \u201ccolor-blind\u201d approach upon first hearing of an interracial relationship, and do not show more overt displeasure or discouragement until the relationship becomes serious. Brazilian families differ in that many show immediate and open racist opposition to interracial mixing. Even upon the families\u2019 acceptance of the relationship, overt racism often persists through the use of \u201chumor,\u201d something that Osuji argues is representative of the \u201cinclusionary discrimination\u201d in Brazilian race relations.<\/p>\n<p>But not everything is different. In both sites, families are most oppositional to black men in interracial couples. Moreover, white men are often less questioned by their families than white women about their decisions to date interracially. Most importantly, Osuji\u2019s study illustrates how, in light of their supposed differences, families in the US and Brazil continue to police racial boundaries despite the societal prevalence of \u201ccolor-blind\u201d and \u201cpost-racial\u201d rhetorics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- TSP testing --> <ins><\/ins>\/\/ &lt;![CDATA[<br \/>\n\/\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinyere Osuji, &ldquo;Divergence or Convergence in the US and Brazil: Understanding Race Relations Through White Family Reactions to Black-White Interracial Couples,&rdquo; Qualitative Sociology, 2014 Much of the research on race relations in the US and Brazil places the two societies in\u00a0separate camps. For example, the US is usually understood as a nation with a strict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,14],"tags":[219,70,37335,37332,27138,37333],"class_list":["post-6825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-inequality","category-race","tag-brazil","tag-family","tag-gender","tag-inequality","tag-los-angeles","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8282,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions\/8282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}