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Freyre's work was very important to change the mentality, especially of the white Brazilian elite, [41] who considered the Brazilian people as "inferior" because of their African and Amerindian ancestry. In this book, Freyre argued against the idea that Brazil would have an "inferior race" because of the race-mixing.
From 1500 to 1972, of all people who entered Brazil, 58% came from Europe, 40% from Africa and 2% from Asia. [42] Most Brazilians have a mixed race ancestry. Genetic studies have shown that Brazilians, whether classified as "brown", "white" or "black", usually have all three ancestries (European, African and indigenous), varying only in degree.
Brazil's population pyramid in 2017 Dutch descendants in Holambra Croatian descendants in Brazil Swiss descendants in São Paulo. The conception of "white" in Brazil is similar to other Latin American countries yet different to the United States, where historically only people of entirely or (almost entirely) European ancestry have been considered white, due to the one drop rule. [10]
Black Brazilian is a term used to categorise by race or color Brazilians who are black. 10.2% of the population of Brazil consider themselves black (preto).Though, the following lists include some visually mixed-race Brazilians, a group considered part of the black population by the Brazilian Black Movement.
But, as race is a social construct, these classifications relate to how people are perceived and perceive themselves in society. In Brazil, class and economic status also affect how individuals are perceived. In Brazil it is possible for two siblings of different colors to be classified as people of different races.
[1] According to the 2022 census, "pardos" make up 92.1 million people or 45.3% of Brazil's population. [2] According to some DNA researches, Brazilians predominantly possess a great degree of mixed-race ancestry, though less than half of the country's population classified themselves as "pardos" in the census. [3]
The revisions to the minimum categories on race and ethnicity, announced Thursday by the Office of Management and Budget, are the latest effort to label and define the people of the United States.
In Mexico, for example, the category mestizo [1] is not defined or applied the same as the corresponding category of mestiço in Brazil. In spite of these differences, the construction of race in Latin America can be contrasted with concepts of race and ethnicity in the United States.