Hemisphere, January 1st, 2001
Historical lessons for contemporary Afro-Brazilian identity Afro-Brazilian activists are struggling to change how blacks identify themselves. In a culture that uses a range of racial designations to describe hair types and skin tones, they are urging Brazilians of African descent to embrace a pan-black identity. Noting that blacks of all shades suffer similar obstacles in a white-dominated society, the campaigns attack the practice of auto-embranquecimento (self-whitening), encouraging those who classify themselves as mulato, pardo of moreno to identify as negro instead. These efforts challe...
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