Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves blackPosted in Articles, Brazil, Caribbean/Latin America, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, Social Science on 2015-11-18 22:55Z by Steven |
Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black
El País
Madrid, Spain
2015-11-17
Marina Rossi
São Paulo, Brazil
English version by Martin Delfín.
 Participants in the “Curly Hair Pride March,” which was held in July in São Paulo. / CORDON PRESS |
- Sociologists say changes in attitudes have made people more open about their origins
- Más brasileños se identifican como negros y mulatos
More and more Brazilians say they are black or multiracial when asked to describe their race, a new study reveals.
In a survey taken by the Brazilian Geographical and Statistics Institute (IBGE) last year, 53% of Brazilians classified themselves as either being black or multiracial while, 45.5% considered themselves white.
In the same National Household Survey taken 10 years earlier, 51.2% of Brazilians polled said they were white while 47.9% replied with black or multiracial…
…Katia Regis, a coordinator for African and Afro-Brazilian studies, believes that the increases among the population who identify themselves as black can be attributed to long battles waged by the country’s black organizations, as well as more access to higher levels of education…
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