History of Brazilian Discrimination

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History of Brazilian
discrimination
• Black movement has been active in Sao Paulo, a region in southern Brazil, since 1930s.
• Brazil was one of the leading traders of Negroes, the African slaves, bringing seven
times more African slaves as compared to the US and was the last country to abolish its
300 years slavery system (Bailey, Loveman & Muniz, 2013).
• The end of slavery calls in Brazil began in the early 19th century and slave trade was
officially abolished in 1888. But Brazil is still facing racial discrimination in-spite of anti-
discrimination laws on racism.
• High degree of miscegenation (race mixture) in Brazil resulted from high-sex ratio
among the colonial rulers where male Portuguese settlers sought out African mulatto
females as their mates (Da Costa, 2016).
• The racism evidences were demonstrated by disparities between whites, black and
brown Brazilians. Inequalities were in areas of gender, age, culture, citizenship, self-
esteem, livelihood, skin complexion, race and education.

History of Brazilian
discrimination
• European immigration was highly encouraged and African and
Chinese immigrants were blocked. This resulted in more Brazilian
population ‘whitening’.
• Racial inequality is quite high in Brazil and labor market racial
discrimination is very common along with and other work spheres
disparity as well. The Non-whites are the main suffering victims of
human rights exploitations in the country (Mitchell, 2010).
• Black social movement in democratized Brazilian society is the
consequences of insufficient anti-racist laws and is the reason why
Caucasian exist in global workplaces.

Events that increased the
discrimination of the Brazilians
• Migration history of Brazil incorporates adversity in slavery,
restrictions, immigration, racist policies and financial strains that
have also troubled the lives of native people as well as
descendants, and the economic crises have led many to emigrate.
• The country is facing new problem with Blackness, as it is in
dilemma on the issue that who are counted as ‘disadvantaged’?
• The ‘color bind’ approach of Brazil is also creating disparity among
the people as everyone is wanting a “white baby’ and this is
turning out to be a communal violence off late (Reis & Crespo, 2015).