Race and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality

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dc.contributor.advisorMorreira, Shannon
dc.contributor.advisorMacdonald, Helen
dc.contributor.authorCampos, Anita
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-18T10:20:18Z
dc.date.available2019-02-18T10:20:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-02-18T10:19:20Z
dc.description.abstractDespite recurrent academic interest in the study of race in both South Africa and in Brazil, little work has been done in Anthropology about the two countries of the Global South in relation to each other. This thesis is situated in that gap and presents an ethnographic study about the racialised experiences of Brazilian migrants in South Africa, in order to explore the different processes of racialization that occur in South Africa and Brazil. The first part of the investigation focuses on the conflictual encounter between informants’ internalized racial habitus as learned in Brazil with the one they encounter in South Africa. The second part examines the impact that such racialization has on the racial identity of Brazilian individuals. Informants found themselves in situations of racial ambiguity in which they did not fit perfectly in any of the local racial categories, and were classified by South Africans in different (and sometimes multiple) racial categories from their previous one in Brazil. I use the theoretical lens of intersectionality to explore informants’ reflections on 'what they are’ as they socially adapted to South African racial categorisations and habitus.
dc.identifier.apacitationCampos, A. (2018). <i>Race and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29594en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationCampos, Anita. <i>"Race and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29594en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCampos, A. 2018. Race and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Campos, Anita AB - Despite recurrent academic interest in the study of race in both South Africa and in Brazil, little work has been done in Anthropology about the two countries of the Global South in relation to each other. This thesis is situated in that gap and presents an ethnographic study about the racialised experiences of Brazilian migrants in South Africa, in order to explore the different processes of racialization that occur in South Africa and Brazil. The first part of the investigation focuses on the conflictual encounter between informants’ internalized racial habitus as learned in Brazil with the one they encounter in South Africa. The second part examines the impact that such racialization has on the racial identity of Brazilian individuals. Informants found themselves in situations of racial ambiguity in which they did not fit perfectly in any of the local racial categories, and were classified by South Africans in different (and sometimes multiple) racial categories from their previous one in Brazil. I use the theoretical lens of intersectionality to explore informants’ reflections on 'what they are’ as they socially adapted to South African racial categorisations and habitus. DA - 2018 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2018 T1 - Race and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality TI - Race and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29594 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/29594
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationCampos A. Race and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 2018 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29594en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.departmentSocial Anthropology
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherRace
dc.subject.otheridentity
dc.subject.otherracial habitus
dc.subject.otherracialization
dc.subject.otherintersectionality
dc.subject.otherSocial Anthropology
dc.titleRace and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMSocSc
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