El mestizaje entre los escalvos como una estrategia económica. El caso de Rio de Janeiro en el siglo XIX

Abstract

This article affirms that there was miscegenation among the African groups that arrived in Rio de Janeiro in the XIX century, that is, that miscegenation is not only a result of the links between blacks and whites but also a product of the relationships between individuals coming from the large regions of Africa. To explain this phenomenon we appeal to the high forced mobility of Africans to Rio de Janeiro, which generated a pattern of phylogenic exogamy that was seen as cultural endogamy, and to the social demands on ethnicity to enter the labor market, which implied that slaves had to make several and simultaneous attributions of identity.