In the 1950s and 1960s, Brazil was touted by black media as being more 'open' and racially progressive than the United States; clearly this was a colored folks' canard, fable and lie. Until black Brazilians can come to grips with their blackness, the basis of their century's of enslavement, they shall lack power, identity, and respect in proportion to their population.
Black Identity and Racism Collide in Brazil
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