title: [The concept of racial democracy in Brazilian intellectual history].
abstract: This article aims to reconstruct the history of the term "racial democracy" in Brazilian sociological literature. This term, usually associated with the idea of "myth", is used in many studies of race relations without little definition or clarity. This article retraces its origins, in particular by showing that the concept is not the invention of Gilberto Freyre. It then examines the evolution of its use with particular emphasis on Unesco's research in the 1950s and the texts of Florestan Fernandes in the 1960s.
authors.affiliation: dép. AES, bat. D, Université de Paris 8, 2, rue de la liberté, F-93560, Saint-Denis, France, Christophe.Brochier@univ-Paris8.fr.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brochier
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003709:Democracy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011822:Race Relations / Q000266:history*; D012961:Sociology / Q000266:history