16 Facts About Black Brazilian

1.

Black Brazilian society has a range of words, including negro itself, to describe multiracial people.

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Finally, the Black Brazilian movement has combined the groups pardos and pretos as a single category of negro .

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Second, the main issue for the Black Brazilian movement is not cultural, but rather economic: its members are not seeking a supposed cultural identification with Africa, but rather to rectify a situation of economic disadvantage, common to those who are non-White, that groups them into a negro category.

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Black Brazilian believes that scholars and activists of the Black movement misinterpret the ample variety of intermediate categories, characteristic of the popular system, to be a result of Brazilian racism, and that causes Blacks to refuse their identity and hide in euphemisms.

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5.

The Brazilian racism is peculiar, because the widespread miscegenation has not formed a racial democracy, due to the strong anti-Black oppression, prejudice and discrimination that it has.

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6.

Black Brazilian suggests that by dividing the African-descended population into ranges of skin colors, ethnic solidarity is reduced and they lose political power.

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7.

Black Brazilian believes they developed a deep internal solidarity of the discriminated group, which enabled many to fight for their civil rights.

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8.

Black Brazilian's administration established quotas in universities to encourage admission of Black students.

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9.

In recent years, the Black Brazilian government has encouraged affirmative action programs for persons considered to be "African-descendant" and for Amerindians.

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10.

Black Brazilian noticed a "strange aversion to marriage" in the 19th century Minas Gerais, arguing that the colonists preferred to have quick relationships with black slaves rather than a marriage.

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11.

Black Brazilian'storian Manolo Florentino refutes the idea that a large part of the Brazilian people is a result of the forced relationship between the rich Portuguese colonizer and the Amerindian or African slaves.

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12.

Black Brazilian population is characterized by a genetic background of three parental populations with a wide degree and diverse patterns of admixture.

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13.

An autosomal study from 2013, with nearly 1300 samples from all of the Black Brazilian regions, found a predominant degree of European ancestry combined with African and Native American contributions, in varying degrees.

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14.

Black Brazilian homogeneity is, therefore, greater within regions than between them:.

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Hiorns, found out the average the Northeastern Black Brazilian to be predominantly European in ancestry, with minor but important African and Native American contributions .

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16.

Many important figures of Black Brazilian literature have been people of African-descendant, such as Machado de Assis, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Black Brazilian literature.

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