%0 Journal Article %T Sobre a identidade brasileira %A Muniz Sodr¨¦ %J IC : Revista Cient¨ªfica de Informaci¨®n y Comunicaci¨®n %D 2010 %I University of Seville %X Na condi o de sujeitos de um patrim nio civilizat¨®rio colonial, as elites brasileiras sempre tentaram pautar-se por padr es de identifica o coletiva afinados com a Europa, o continente da civiliza o branca. A branquitude ¨¦ o paradigma antropol¨®gico hegem nico. Entretanto, a miscibilidade ou virtude da mistura ¨¦ a estrat¨¦gia que d¨¢ margem aos discursos de concilia o das diferen as de classe e de padr o fenot¨ªpico. As f¨¢bulas do ¡°homem cordial¡±, da ¡°convivialidade¡±, do ¡°car¨¢ter pac¨ªfico¡± e da ¡°consci¨ºncia n o-racista¡± referem-se a representa es sens¨ªveis e imagens do mundo decorrentes dessa estrat¨¦gia identit¨¢ria. As subjects of a colonial civilizing heritage, the Brazilian elites always tried to represent themselves by means of collective identification models borrowed from Europe, the continent of white civilization. ¡°Whiteness¡± and the hegemonic anthropological paradigm. While ¡°mixturism¡± or the virtue of mixture is the strategy that gives occasion for discourses of conciliation of class and phenotypic pattern differences. The fables of ¡°cordial man¡±, ¡°coexistence¡±, ¡°pacific character¡± and ¡°non-racist consciousness¡± refer to sensitive representations and images of the world stemming from this identity strategy. %K Identidade %K Branquitude %K Miscilibidade %K Preconceito %K Identity %K Brazil %K National history %K Creator of souls %U http://www.ic-journal.org/data/downloads/1292343056-43sodrebaja.pdf