Trying to Build a Classless Utopia in the Land of Racial Democracy: The Lack of Racial Discussion Within the Educational Materials of the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers’ Movement

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dc.contributor.authorStraubhaar, Rolf
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-19T15:48:57Z
dc.date.available2019-07-19T15:48:57Z
dc.date.issued2017-01
dc.description.abstractThe hegemonic ideology of racial democracy and rural cultural norms of racial silence continue to inform racial identities and national racial discourse in Brazil, in this case within the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (or MST), a left-wing movement for agrarian reform. In this article I engage in textual analysis of a textbook from the MST's youth curriculum, arguing that the language used in this textbook does not recognize the centrality of race in world or Brazilian history, but rather focuses on the role of social class in marginalization. I also argue that race is largely ignored in the textbook’s description of the MST itself, despite the organization working in rural areas that are predominantly indigenous or Afro-descendant. Lastly, I argue that language is used which implicitly separates the MST leadership from indigenous and Afro-Brazilian populations. The implications of these findings are analyzed through the lens of critical race theory and Brazilian rurality.
dc.description.departmentCounseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology
dc.description.versionThis is the accepted manuscript version of an article published in Race Ethnicity and Education.
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dc.format.extent26 pages
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dc.identifier.citationStraubhaar, R. (2017). Trying to build a classless utopia in the land of racial democracy: the lack of racial discussion within the educational materials of the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers’ Movement. Race Ethnicity and Education, 20(2), pp. 264-276.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2015.1110341
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/8341
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.sourceRace Ethnicity and Education, 2017, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 264-276.
dc.subjectrace in Brazil
dc.subjectrurality
dc.subjectcritical race theory
dc.subjectLandless Rural Worker's Movement
dc.titleTrying to Build a Classless Utopia in the Land of Racial Democracy: The Lack of Racial Discussion Within the Educational Materials of the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers’ Movement
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