Multiculturalismo, Estado e modernidade: as nuanças em alguns países europeus e o debate no Brasil

This paper, based on ethnographic research, presents the most evident changes among groups of low-income youth, the vast majority of whom are black or mixed-race, in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over the course of ten years. The notions of ideal work and ideal male or female partner change a...

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Main Author: Sansone Livio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 2003-01-01
Series:Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-52582003000300005
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Summary:This paper, based on ethnographic research, presents the most evident changes among groups of low-income youth, the vast majority of whom are black or mixed-race, in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over the course of ten years. The notions of ideal work and ideal male or female partner change along with the growing popularity of a perception of citizenship that is increasingly centered on individuals and their freedom of movement and conspicuous consumption - the measurement of participation in societies and their collective rituals. Among these youth there is also a renewed interest in blackness and youth, features which are no longer hidden, but celebrated and vindicated. In this context, new demands for citizenship take shape, along with a new feeling of relative dispossession: both are indicators of the new face of poverty in Brazil.
ISSN:0011-5258
1678-4588