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Scaling proximity to whiteness: Racial boundary-making on São Tomé Island
Ethnography ( IF 1.322 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-08 , DOI: 10.1177/1466138120967373
Marie-Eve Bouchard 1
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In this article, I examine how scales are produced, stabilized, and challenged through communicative practices, and how these scales organize (since colonial times) the racial groups that form Santomean society. I argue that the historical distinctive status of the Forros and the prestigious status of the Portuguese language are influenced by different scaling practices that are intertwined and interrelated. I demonstrate that it is the Forros’ imagined and historical proximity to whiteness that bestow them racial privilege, and that allows them to maintain their position of social and political power in the country. In other words, their power results from proximity to Whiteness.



中文翻译:

接近白人:圣多美岛上的种族界限

在本文中,我研究了尺度是如何通过交流实践产生、稳定和挑战的,以及这些尺度如何组织(自殖民时代以来)构成桑托米亚社会的种族群体。我认为,福罗斯语的历史独特地位和葡萄牙语的声望地位受到相互交织和相互关联的不同尺度实践的影响。我证明,正是福罗斯人在想象中和历史上与白人的接近赋予了他们种族特权,并使他们能够维持自己在该国的社会和政治权力地位。换句话说,他们的力量来自于接近白人。

更新日期:2021-01-14
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