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  2. Afro-Brazilian history - Wikipedia

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    "African" or the black population at the time in Brazil did not only characterize those who were born in Africa but also the descendants of the "African- borns" who were born in Brazil. [7] Due to the removal of the slave status and property requirements for the black population, it resulted in the formal equality of the white and black population.

  3. Afro-Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    According to him the mixture of races in Brazil, more than a sexual domination of the rich Portuguese master over the poor slaves, was a mixture between the poor Portuguese settlers with the Amerindian and Black women. [49] The Brazilian population of more evident black physiognomy is more strongly present along the coast, due to the high ...

  4. Afro-Brazilian feminism - Wikipedia

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    The Marcha das Mulheres Negras, which translates to "Black Women's March", took place on November 18, 2015. Marcha das Mulheres Negras gathered more than 10,000 black women from all socioeconomic backgrounds, ranging from domestic workers to politicians and professors. This march was the first ever national Afro-Brazilian women's march in Brazil.

  5. Sambo (racial term) - Wikipedia

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    Sambo came into the English language from zambo, the Spanish word in Latin America for a person of South American negro, mixed European, and native descent. [3] This in turn may have come from one of three African language sources. Webster's Third International Dictionary holds that it may have come from the Kongo word nzambu ('monkey').

  6. Black movement in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination of black women in Brazil came from a patriarchal society that believed women to be inferior to men, that their belonging was in the household and solely in the domestics. Black women fought against this wanting to bee seen citizens worth to gain independence, in the workforce, education and politics as well as dispelling the ...

  7. Mixed-race Brazilian - Wikipedia

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    People of Black African and Native Brazilian ancestry are known as Cafuzos and are historically the less numerous group. Most of them have origin in black women who escaped slavery and were welcomed by indigenous communities, where they started families with local amerindian men.

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  9. Afro-Brazilian culture - Wikipedia

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    In colonial Brazil, blacks and mulattos, whether slaves or freedmen, often associated themselves in Catholic religious brotherhoods. The Sisterhood of Our Lady of the Good Death and the Sisterhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Black Men were among the most important, also serving as a link between Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian religions.