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  • For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil

    For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil Miami Herald 2011-05-24 Taylor Barnes, Special to the Miami Herald Brazilians are no longer reluctant to admit being black or ‘pardo,’ experts said. RIO DE JANEIRO—In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of…

  • Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional study

    Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional study BMC Public Health Volume 2, Number 1 (2002-01-16) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-2-1 5 pages Sandra C. Fuchs Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Sylvia M. Guimarães Department of Internal Medicine,…

  • Y-STR diversity and ethnic admixture in White and Mulatto Brazilian population samples

    Y-STR diversity and ethnic admixture in White and Mulatto Brazilian population samples Genetics and Molecular Biology (Former title: Brazilian Journal of Genetics) Volume 29, Number 4 (São Paulo  2006) pages 605-607 DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572006000400004 ISSN 1415-4757 Luzitano Brandão Ferreira Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil…

  • Racial inequalities and perinatal health in the southeast region of Brazil

    Racial inequalities and perinatal health in the southeast region of Brazil Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research Volume 40, Number 9 (September 2007) pages 1187-1194 DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006005000144 ISSN 1678-4510 L. M. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, MA, Brasil R. A. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

    Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…

  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America

    PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves

    Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves The Guardian 2010-08-25 Tom Phillip Interviewers plan to reach 190m people, including the long-ignored Kalunga, by motorbike, plane, canoe and donkey When Jorge Moreira de Oliveira’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather arrived in Brazil in the 18th century he was counted off the slave-ship, branded and dispatched to…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson] American Anthropologist Volume 110, Issue 1 (March 2008) pp. 79–80 ISSN 0002-7294; online ISSN 1548-1433 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00013.x Amanda Walker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? G. Reginald Daniel.…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey] Contemporary Sociology Volume 36, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 535-536 DOI: 10.1177/009430610703600609 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?, by G. Reginald Daniel. University Park, PA: The…

  • Creolization of the Atlantic World: The Portuguese and the Kongolese

    Creolization of the Atlantic World: The Portuguese and the Kongolese Portuguese Studies Volume 27, Number 1 (2011-03-01) pages 56-69 Francisco Bethencourt, Professor of History King’s College, London In the 1930s, Gilberto Freyre’s praise of mixed-race people in Brazil challenged the idea of white supremacy, contributing to the building of a new Brazilian identity. In the…