You may well have already looked but I'll put a couple of links about race/racism in Brazil. The one from the UN notes that in the US the colonizers came as families while in Brazil they were single men which led to a higher amount of racial mixing.
I think you are correct about the persisting influence of Jim Crow. As recently as the ear…
You may well have already looked but I'll put a couple of links about race/racism in Brazil. The one from the UN notes that in the US the colonizers came as families while in Brazil they were single men which led to a higher amount of racial mixing.
I think you are correct about the persisting influence of Jim Crow. As recently as the early 1980s my wife and I were denied service in a fraternal lodge in Georgia because she failed the brown paper bag test. Mighty white of them to not mention their policy before they got my fifty bucks membership. Ironically, she talked me into joining. She played bingo, illegal at the time, in the lodge's "lady's bingo room" which allowed POC. They brought out food for sale from their restaurant and she wanted me to join so we could go eat there together.
Poor white and black people associated far more than the modern SJWs would have us believe back in the day. The moneyed found that dangerous and promoted institutionalized racism to build the divide to reduce opposition from the have nots. The effectiveness is stunning.
You may well have already looked but I'll put a couple of links about race/racism in Brazil. The one from the UN notes that in the US the colonizers came as families while in Brazil they were single men which led to a higher amount of racial mixing.
I think you are correct about the persisting influence of Jim Crow. As recently as the early 1980s my wife and I were denied service in a fraternal lodge in Georgia because she failed the brown paper bag test. Mighty white of them to not mention their policy before they got my fifty bucks membership. Ironically, she talked me into joining. She played bingo, illegal at the time, in the lodge's "lady's bingo room" which allowed POC. They brought out food for sale from their restaurant and she wanted me to join so we could go eat there together.
Poor white and black people associated far more than the modern SJWs would have us believe back in the day. The moneyed found that dangerous and promoted institutionalized racism to build the divide to reduce opposition from the have nots. The effectiveness is stunning.
https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/racial-discrimination-and-miscegenation-experience-brazil
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/mythology-of-racial-democracy-in-brazil/
God, stories like that make me so angry. Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.