“Normalizing Racism: Analyzing Two Discourses in Brazil’s Racial Democracy and Their Implications for White Supremacy in the United States”

In Chapter 4 of Racism in a Racial Democracy, Winddance Twine analyzes six types of discourses that Brazilians in Vasalia present to explain “the absence of politicans, church officials, business owners, landowners, professionals, and other positions of prestige and power.” 
Select 2 of the discourses she analyzes.  In an essay, state the  two discourses you will study, summarize Winddance Twine’s analysis for each of the discourses you chose. How do Chapters 5-7 deepen your understanding of how the discourses you selected work in Visalia? What do Winddance Twine’s findings teach you about how discourses operate to normalize racism and sustain white supremacy? How might Winddance Twine’s analysis be applied to the discourses that sustain white supremacy in the United States? 
Discourses Discussed in Chapter 4
Invisibility of White Privilege
Discourses of Class Inequality, Inheritance, Mestiçagem
Demographic Defense: Whites are in the Majority
Discourse of Cultural Inferiority
Discourses of Containment: Temporal
Discourses of Containment: Spatial