Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Negroes in Brazil:A Study of Race Contact at Bahia


Pierson, Donald, Negroes in Brazil: A Study of Race Contact at Bahia, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942.

Reviewed in American Anthropologist © 1944.

See also The Educational Process and the Brazilian Negro, by Donald Pierson, and Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl N. Degler.

Donald Pierson:
He earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1939 with a thesis on race relations based on a stay in Bahia 1935. Then remained as a professor in the School of Sociology and Politics in São Paulo until 1959. His book Negroes in Brazil, the Study of Race Contact at Bahia, 1942, based on the thesis contains mostly numeric tables classifying people by race type, concluding that although the blacks occupy the lower rungs of the social ladder Brazilian, there was not racism as defined in the United States. The author devotes two chapters to the culture of African origin.

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