The Racial Contract in Brazil

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An analysis of racism in Brazil using Charles Mills' book, "The Racial Contract. For Philosophy 108H with Dr. Gines at the Pennsylvania State University.

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  • Hmm, I'm just wondering why you posted this video.

  • @JSKaoru For a Philosophy class on political theory and social contracts at Penn State, I had discuss how different philosophers would react to current events and post a video on youtube for the class. Charles Mills is a contemporary philosopher who discusses the issue of racism in political systems, and for this video I chose to look at how racism has operated historically in Brazil.

  • @zbrasss12 that's an excellent comment. I agree, that historical racism is the primary cause for current inequalities between racial groups rather than contemporary racist attitudes. I'm sorry if you felt that I was saying that all white Brazilians are racist, that is not my intention or beliefs, and I'm sorry for not clearly communicating that.

  • BRAZIL HAS MANY WHITES(germans,italians descent),BLACKS,BROWNS..

  • @Germandescentheil I'm sorry for the confusion, my point is not that Brazil doesn't have other racial groups, but that there are many racial groups in Brazil whose historical political relationships may fit Charles Mills' theory of a racial contract.

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  • i just wanted to say that we (the brazilian whites) are not living segregated from blacks because we are racists. Thats because most of blacks cant afford a good school or a house in a good suburb so we ended up living in different enviroments.As i said before, opportunities are being equally given to people regarless to their skin colour, but it takes time to end differences produced by hundred of years of discrimination and slavery (most of us are up to change the situation it just takes time)

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  • @bac1881 Black man you right

  • @MrRacerSPEEDV1 Mongrels with inferiority complex doesn't equal white.

  • Proud to be White!

  • You seems Vin Diesel.

  • you have done such a marvelous job applying this idea across international cultural contexts! :o) i would only like to add that, in order for our brazilian kin to have a slightly understanding of the social organization of racial categories in brazil, perhaps we can sidestep this inevitably invidious debate over how "non-whites in the u.s. think/feel versus how brazilian non-whites think/feel" on this topic, and realize whiteness is the apex of both iberian and saxon models of racial order.

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