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Afro-Brazilians

Index Afro-Brazilians

Afro-Brazilians (afro-brasileiros) are Brazilians who have predominantly sub-Saharan African ancestry (see "preto"). [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 259 relations: Abolitionism, Acrobatics, Adhemar da Silva, Affirmative action, Africa, African cuisine, African culture in Rio Grande do Sul, African diaspora, African diaspora religions, Afro-Brazilian culture, Afro–Latin Americans, Agnosticism, Akara, Alceu Collares, Amapá, Ambundu, Amen Santo, American Journal of Human Biology, Amparo, São Paulo, Angola, Angolans in Brazil, Arabs, Asian Brazilians, Association football, Atheism, Atlantic slave trade, Bahia, Bantu peoples, Batuque (religion), BBC, Belém, Benguela, Benin, Berbers, Black movement in Brazil, Black turtle bean, Black-eyed pea, Brasília, Brazilian cuisine, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Brazilians, Cabinda Province, Caboclo, Cachaça, Campinas, Candomblé, Candomblé Jejé, Capivari, Capoeira, Capoeira in popular culture, ... Expand index (209 more) »

  2. African diaspora in Brazil
  3. Brazilian people of African descent
  4. Race in Brazil

Abolitionism

Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.

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Acrobatics

Acrobatics is the performance of human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination.

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Adhemar da Silva

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (September 29, 1927 – January 12, 2001) was a Brazilian triple jumper.

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Affirmative action

Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and policies) refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to benefit marginalized groups.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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African cuisine

African cuisine is a staple of the continent's culture, and its history is entwined with the story of the native people of Africa.

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African culture in Rio Grande do Sul

African Culture in Rio Grande do Sul refers to the history, attributes, and values of African-Brazilian culture in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Afro-Brazilians and African culture in Rio Grande do Sul are African diaspora in Brazil.

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African diaspora

The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas.

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African diaspora religions

African diaspora religions, also described as Afro-American religions, are a number of related beliefs that developed in the Americas in various nations of the Caribbean, Latin America and the Southern United States.

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Afro-Brazilian culture

Afro-Brazilian culture is the combination of cultural manifestations in Brazil that have suffered some influence from African culture since colonial times until the present day. Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Brazilian culture are African diaspora in Brazil and ethnic groups in Brazil.

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Afro–Latin Americans

Afro–Latin Americans or Black Latin Americans (sometimes Afro-Latinos) are Latin Americans of full or mainly sub-Saharan African ancestry.

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Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.

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Akara

Àkàrà (Yoruba) (English: bean cake; Hausa: kosai; Portuguese: acarajé is a type of fritter made from cowpeas or beans (black-eyed peas) by the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Togo and Benin. It is found throughout West African, Caribbean, and Brazilian cuisines. The dish is traditionally encountered in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, especially in the city of Salvador.

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Alceu Collares

Alceu de Deus Collares (born 12 September 1927) is a Brazilian politician and lawyer.

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Amapá

Amapá is one of the 26 states of Brazil.

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Ambundu

The Ambundu or Mbundu (Mbundu: Ambundu or Akwambundu, singular: Mumbundu (distinct from the Ovimbundu) are a Bantu people who live on a high plateau in present-day Angola just north of the Kwanza River. The Ambundu speak Kimbundu, and most also speak the official language of the country, Portuguese. They are the second biggest ethnic group in the country and make up 25% of the total population of Angola.

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Amen Santo

Joselito 'Amen' Santo (1965) is a mestre of the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira.

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American Journal of Human Biology

The American Journal of Human Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering human biology.

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Amparo, São Paulo

Amparo is a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Angolans in Brazil

There is a small but recognizable community of Angolans in Brazil consisting mainly of immigrants and expatriates from Angola. Afro-Brazilians and Angolans in Brazil are ethnic groups in Brazil.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Asian Brazilians

Asian Brazilians (brasileiros asiáticos) refers to Brazilian citizens or residents of Asian ancestry. Afro-Brazilians and Asian Brazilians are race in Brazil.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.

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Bahia

Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country.

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Bantu peoples

The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.

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Batuque (religion)

Batuque is an Afro-Brazilian religion, practiced mainly in Brazil.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Belém

Belém (Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north.

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Benguela

Benguela (Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.

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Black movement in Brazil

Movimento Negro (or Black Movement) is a generic name given to the diverse Afro-Brazilian social movements that occurred in 20th-century Brazil, particularly those movements that appeared in post-World War II Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Afro-Brazilians and Black movement in Brazil are African diaspora in Brazil.

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Black turtle bean

The black turtle bean is a small, shiny variety of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) especially popular in Latin American cuisine, though it can also be found in the Cajun and Creole cuisines of south Louisiana.

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Black-eyed pea

The black-eyed pea or black-eyed bean is a legume grown around the world for its medium-sized, edible bean.

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Brasília

Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District, located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region.

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Brazilian cuisine

Brazilian cuisine is the set of cooking practices and traditions of Brazil, and is characterized by European, Amerindian, African, and Asian (Levantine, Japanese, and most recently, Chinese) influences.

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Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; IBGE) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil.

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Brazilians

Brazilians (Brasileiros) are the citizens of Brazil. Afro-Brazilians and Brazilians are ethnic groups in Brazil.

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Cabinda Province

Cabinda (formerly called Portuguese Congo, Kabinda) is an exclave and province of Angola, a status that has been disputed by several political organizations in the territory.

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Caboclo

A caboclo is a person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and European ancestry, or, less commonly, a culturally assimilated or detribalized person of full Amerindian descent. Afro-Brazilians and caboclo are race in Brazil.

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Cachaça

Cachaça is a distilled spirit made from fermented sugarcane juice.

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Campinas

Campinas (Plains or Meadows) is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region.

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Candomblé

Candomblé is an African diasporic religion that developed in Brazil during the 19th century.

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Candomblé Jejé

Candomblé Jejé, also known as Brazilian Vodum, is one of the major branches (nations) of Candomblé.

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Capivari

Capivari is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

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Capoeira

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and game that includes elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality.

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The Brazilian martial art of capoeira, noted for its acrobatic movements and kicks, has often been featured in and influenced popular culture.

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Captaincy of Pernambuco

The Captaincy of Pernambuco or New Lusitania (Nova Lusitânia) was a hereditary land grant and administrative subdivision of northern Portuguese Brazil during the colonial period from 1534 to 1821, with a brief interruption from 1630 to 1654 when it was part of Dutch Brazil.

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Carlos Alberto Reis de Paula

Carlos Alberto Reis de Paula (born February 26, 1944, in Pedro Leopoldo, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is the first Afro-Brazilian president of Brazilian Superior Labor Court (Tribunal Superior do Trabalho).

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Cartola

Angenor de Oliveira, known as Cartola (Portuguese for top hat), (October 11, 1908 – November 30, 1980) was a Brazilian singer, composer and poet considered to be a major figure in the development of samba.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Celso Pitta

Celso Roberto Pitta do Nascimento (1946–2009) was a Brazilian economist and politician.

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Central-West Region, Brazil

The Central-West or Center-West Region of Brazil (Região Centro-Oeste do Brasil) is composed of the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul; along with Distrito Federal (Federal District), where Brazil's national capital, Brasília, is situated.

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Chauffeur

A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or a limousine.

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Chica da Silva

Francisca da Silva de Oliveira (–1796), known in history by the name Chica da Silvahttp://dicionarioegramatica.com/2015/12/06/chica-ou-xica-da-silva-o-certo-e-xica-ou-chica-da-silva/ Chica ou Xica da Silva? in: DicionarioeGramatica.com and whose romanticized version/character is also known by the spelling Xica da Silva, was a Brazilian woman who became famous for becoming rich and powerful despite having been born into slavery.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Cobra Mansa

Mestre Cobra Mansa (born Cinézio Feliciano Peçanha, 1960 in Duque de Caxias, Brazil) also known as Cobrinha and Cobrinha Mansa, is a mestre of capoeira Angola.

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Colonial Brazil

Colonial Brazil (Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal.

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Concubinage

Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.

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Culture of Brazil

The culture of Brazil has been shaped by the amalgamation of diverse indigenous cultures, and the cultural fusion that took place among Indigenous communities, Portuguese colonizers, and Africans, primarily during the Brazilian colonial period.

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Dahomey

The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904.

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Darcy Ribeiro

Darcy Ribeiro (October 26, 1922 – February 17, 1997) was a Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician.

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Deism

Deism (or; derived from the Latin term deus, meaning "god") is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe.

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Demétrio Magnoli

Demétrio Martinelli Magnoli is a Brazilian sociologist, PhD in human geography, writer and columnist.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Dida (footballer, born 1973)

Nélson de Jesus Silva (born 7 October 1973), better known simply as Dida, is a Brazilian former football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach.

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Diplomat

A diplomat (from δίπλωμα; romanized diploma) is a person appointed by a state, intergovernmental, or nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Dutch Brazil

Dutch Brazil (Nederlands-Brazilië), also known as New Holland (Nieuw-Holland), was a colony of the Dutch Republic in the northeastern portion of modern-day Brazil, controlled from 1630 to 1654 during Dutch colonization of the Americas.

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Edward Telles

Edward Telles is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the Center for Research on International Migration.

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Elmina

Elmina, also known as Edina by the local Fante, is a town and the capital of the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District on the south coast of Ghana in the Central Region, situated on a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, west of Cape Coast.

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Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial; Guinée équatoriale; Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatorial, République de Guinée équatoriale, República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of.

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Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo is a state in southeastern Brazil.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.

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Ethnology

Ethnology (from the ἔθνος, ethnos meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Farofa

Farofa is a type of meal made from toasted cassava.

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Favela

Favela is an umbrella name for several types of working-class neighborhoods in Brazil.

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Feijoada

Feijoada is a stew of beans with beef and pork.

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Fernandinho (footballer, born May 1985)

Fernando Luiz Roza (born 4 May 1985), known as Fernandinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Athletico Paranaense.

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Folha de S.Paulo

Folha de S.Paulo (sometimes spelled Folha de São Paulo), also known as simply Folha (Sheet), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name Folha da Noite and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company.

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Fon people

The Fon people, also called Dahomeans, Fon nu or Agadja are a Gbe ethnic group.

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Fortaleza

Fortaleza (Fortress) is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil.

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Fula people

The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fundação Getulio Vargas (Getulio Vargas Foundation, often abbreviated as FGV) is a Brazilian higher education institution and think tank founded on December 20, 1944.

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Garrincha

Manuel Francisco dos Santos (28 October 1933 – 20 January 1983), nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha ("little bird"), was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger.

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Gene

In biology, the word gene has two meanings.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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Geraldo Pereira (musician)

Geraldo Theodoro Pereira, known as Geraldo Pereira, (Juiz de Fora, April 23, 1918 – Rio de Janeiro, May 8, 1955) was a Brazilian singer and samba composer.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

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Gilberto Freyre

Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman born in Recife.

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Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born 26 June 1942), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism.

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Haitian Brazilians

A Haitian Brazilian (Haitiano-Brasileiro, Haïtien Brésilien, Ayisyen-Brezilyen) is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Haitian ancestry, or a Haitian-born person residing in Brazil.

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Hausa people

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.

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Henrique Dias

Henrique Dias (died 8 June 1662) was a Portuguese soldier and militia leader born in the colony of Brazil.

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Human skin color

Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues.

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Ilhéus

Ilhéus is a major city located in the southern coastal region of Bahia, Brazil, 211 km south of Salvador, the state's capital.

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Indaiatuba

Indaiatuba is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil, prior to European contact around 1500 AD. Afro-Brazilians and Indigenous peoples in Brazil are ethnic groups in Brazil and race in Brazil.

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Institute of Applied Economic Research

The Institute of Applied Economic Research (Portuguese: Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Ipea) is a Brazilian government-led research organization dedicated to generation of macroeconomical, sectorial and thematic studies in order to base government planning and policy making.

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Irreligion

Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.

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Isa Soares

Isa Soares (born 1953) is a Brazilian-born Argentine dancer and activist involved in creating awareness of the African traditions of Argentina and fighting racism against Afro-Argentine peoples.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Itu, São Paulo

Itu is a historic municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

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Jadel Gregório

Jadel Abdul Ghani Gregório (born 16 September 1980 in Jandaia do Sul, Paraná) is a Brazilian athlete competing in long jump and triple jump.

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Joaquim Barbosa

Joaquim Benedito Barbosa Gomes (born October 7, 1954) is a former Justice of the Supreme Federal Court in Brazil.

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João Carlos de Oliveira

João Carlos de Oliveira, also known as "João do Pulo" (May 28, 1954May 29, 1999) was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump and the long jump.

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João da Cruz e Sousa

João da Cruz e Sousa (24 November 1861 – 19 March 1898), also referred to simply as Cruz e Sousa, was a Brazilian poet and journalist, famous for being one of the first Brazilian Symbolist poets.

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João do Rio

João do Rio was the pseudonym of the Brazilian journalist, short-story writer and playwright João Paulo Emílio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto, a Brazilian author and journalist of African descent (August 5, 1881, Rio de Janeiro – June 23, 1921, Rio de Janeiro).

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João Grande

João Oliveira dos Santos (born 15 January 1933), better known as Mestre João Grande, is a Grão-Mestre (Grand Master) of the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira angola who has contributed to the spread of this art throughout the world.

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João Pereira dos Santos

João Pereira dos Santos (27 December 1917 – 9 December 2011), known as Mestre João Pequeno was capoeira Angola mestre and one of the principal students of mestre Pastinha.

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Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.

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Jorge Ben

Jorge Duílio Lima Menezes (born March 22, 1939) is a Brazilian popular musician, performing under the stage name Jorge Ben Jor since the 1980s, though commonly known by his former stage name Jorge Ben.

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José do Patrocínio

José Carlos do Patrocínio (9 October 1854 – 29 January 1905) was a Brazilian writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist.

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Kalûnga Line

The Kalûnga Line in Kongo religion is a watery boundary between the land of the living (Ku Nseke) and the spiritual realm of the ancestors (Ku Mpemba).

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Kardecist spiritism

Spiritism or Kardecism is a reincarnationist and spiritualist doctrine established in France in the mid-19th century by writer and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (a.k.a. Allan Kardec).

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Kilwa Kisiwani

Kilwa Kisiwani ('Kilwa Island') is an island, national historic site, and hamlet community located in the township of Kilwa Masoko, the district seat of Kilwa District in the Tanzanian region of Lindi in southern Tanzania.

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Kongo people

The Kongo people (Bisi Kongo., EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo.

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Lázaro Ramos

Luís Lázaro Sacramento Ramos (born 1 November 1978) is a Brazilian actor, television presenter, director, writer, and voice actor.

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Leandro Barbosa

Leandro Mateus Aparecida Barbosa (born November 28, 1982), also known as Leandrinho Barbosa, is a Brazilian former professional basketball player who is an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Leônidas

Leônidas da Silva (6 September 1913 – 24 January 2004) was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Life expectancy

Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.

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List of interracial topics

Interracial topics include.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Lourdes de Oliveira

Lourdes de Oliveira (born 17 December 1938) is a Brazilian actress.

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Lupicínio Rodrigues

Lupicínio Rodrigues (Porto Alegre, September 16, 1914 – Porto Alegre, August 27, 1974) was a Brazilian singer and composer from Rio Grande do Sul.

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Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme VelhoVainfas, p. 505. Afro-Brazilians and Machado de Assis are Brazilian people of African descent.

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Macumba

Macumba is a generic term for various Afro-Brazilian religions, the practitioners of which are them called macumbeiros.

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Maid

A maid, housemaid, or maidservant is a female domestic worker.

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Malê revolt

The Malê revolt (Revolta dos Malês,,, also known as the Great Revolt and the Ramadan Revolt) was a Muslim slave rebellion that broke out during the regency period in the Empire of Brazil.

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Male

Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.

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Mameluco

Mameluco is a Portuguese word that denotes the first generation child of a European and an Amerindian.

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Mammy stereotype

A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting black women, usually enslaved, who did domestic work, including nursing children.

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Manuel dos Reis Machado

Manuel dos Reis Machado, commonly called Mestre Bimba (November 23, 1900 – February 5, 1974), was a Brazilian capoeira mestre and the founder of the capoeira regional style.

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Maria Firmina dos Reis

Maria Firmina dos Reis (March 11, 1822 – November 11, 1917) was a Brazilian author.

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Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

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(Popular Brazilian Music) or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and baião and other Brazilian regional music, combining them with foreign influences, such as jazz and rock.

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Milton Gonçalves

Milton Gonçalves (9 December 1933 – 30 May 2022) was a Brazilian actor and television director, who was one of the most famous black actors in Brazil, having collaborated twice with acclaimed director Héctor Babenco.

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Milton Nascimento

Milton Silva Campos do Nascimento (born October 26, 1942), also known as Bituca, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 census.

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Minna

Minna is a city in Middle Belt Nigeria.

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Miscegenation

Miscegenation is marriage or admixture between people who are members of different races.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.

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Moqueca

Moqueca (or depending on the dialect, also spelled muqueca) is a Brazilian seafood stew.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Mulatto

Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.

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Music of Africa

Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions.

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Music of Portugal

Portuguese music includes many different styles and genres, as a result of its history.

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Mussum

Antônio Carlos Bernardes Gomes (April 7, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro – July 29, 1994 in São Paulo), known artistically as Mussum, was a famous Brazilian actor and musician, notable for being a member of the comedic group Os Trapalhões.

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Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Natal (literally Christmas or natal (something related to "birth")) is the capital and largest city of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, located in northeastern Brazil.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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Nelson Prudêncio

Nelson Prudêncio (April 4, 1944 – November 23, 2012) was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump.

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Nenê

Nenê (born Maybyner Rodney Hilário; September 13, 1982) is a Brazilian former professional basketball player.

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Neo-charismatic movement

The Neo-charismatic (also third-wave charismatic or hypercharismatic) movement is a movement within evangelical Protestant Christianity that is composed of a diverse range of independent churches and organizations that emphasize the current availability of gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and faith healing.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Nigerian Brazilians

A Nigerian Brazilian (Nigeriano-brasileiro) is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Nigerian ancestry, or a Nigerian-born person residing in Brazil. Afro-Brazilians and Nigerian Brazilians are ethnic groups in Brazil.

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Nigerian cuisine

Nigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of Native African ethnic groups that comprises Nigeria.

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Nkisi

or (plural varies:,,, or) are spirits or an object that a spirit inhabits.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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North Region, Brazil

The North Region of Brazil (Região Norte do Brasil) is the largest region of Brazil, accounting for 45.27% of the national territory.

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North Region, Portugal

The North Region (Região do Norte) or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisbon, and the third most extensive by area.

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Northeast Region, Brazil

The Northeast Region of Brazil (Região Nordeste do Brasil) is one of the five official and political regions of the country according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.

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O Globo

O Globo (The Globe) is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro.

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Olive skin

Olive skin is a human skin tone.

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One-drop rule

The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States.

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Order of Christ (Brazil)

The Imperial Order of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Imperial Ordem de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo), simply named Order of Christ, is an order of chivalry instituted by emperor Pedro I of Brazil on 7 December 1822, on the basis of the Portuguese Order of Christ founded by King Dom Dinis and Pope John XXII in 1316–1319.

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Orisha

Orishas (singular: orisha) are divine spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Haitian Vaudou, Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Santería and Brazilian Candomblé.

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Oyo Empire

The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire in West Africa.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms.

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Palmares (quilombo)

Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a quilombo, a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694.

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Pardo

In the former Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas, pardos (feminine pardas) are triracial descendants of Southern Europeans, Indigenous Americans and West Africans.

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Pardo Brazilians

In Brazil, Pardo is an ethnic and skin color category used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in the Brazilian censuses. Afro-Brazilians and Pardo Brazilians are race in Brazil.

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Pé de Chumbo

Pé de Chumbo is a master of Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, and a student of João Pequeno's.

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Pedro Moraes Trindade

Pedro Moraes Trindade, commonly known as Mestre Moraes, (born February 9, 1950, in Ilha de Maré in Salvador, Brazil) is a master of capoeira.

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Pelé

Edson Arantes do Nascimento (23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), better known by his nickname Pelé, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.

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Pernambuco

Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country.

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Piracicaba

Piracicaba is a city located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

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Pixinguinha

Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho, known as Pixinguinha (April 23, 1897February 17, 1973) was a Brazilian composer, arranger, flautist and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro.

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Plantation

Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.

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Pork

Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the pig (Sus domesticus).

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Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre (Brazilian) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

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Portuguese Brazilians

Portuguese Brazilians (luso-brasileiros) are Brazilian citizens whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Portugal.

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Portuguese cuisine

The oldest known book on Portuguese cuisine, entitled Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D. Maria de Portugal, from the 16th century, describes many popular dishes of meat, fish, poultry and others.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Quilombola

A quilombola is an Afro-Brazilian resident of quilombo settlements first established by escaped slaves in Brazil. Afro-Brazilians and quilombola are ethnic groups in Brazil and people of African descent.

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Quimbanda

Quimbanda, also spelled Kimbanda, is an Afro-Brazilian religion practiced primarily in the urban city centers of Brazil.

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Race and ethnicity in Brazil

Brazilian society is made up of a confluence of people of Indigenous, Portuguese, and African descent. Afro-Brazilians and Race and ethnicity in Brazil are ethnic groups in Brazil and race in Brazil.

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Racial democracy

Racial democracy (democracia racial) is a concept that denies the existence of racism in Brazil.

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Racism in Brazil

Racism has been present in Brazil since its colonial period and is pointed as one of the major and most widespread types of discrimination, if not the most, in the country by several anthropologists, sociologists, jurists, historians and others. Afro-Brazilians and Racism in Brazil are race in Brazil.

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Recife

Recife is the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.

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Religion in Brazil

The predominant religion in Brazil is Christianity, with Catholicism being its largest denomination.

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Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, and soldier.

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Rio de Contas

Rio de Contas is a municipality in the Bahia state, in the eastern part of Brazil.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil.

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Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul ("Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil.

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Robinho

Robson de Souza (born 25 January 1984), known as Robinho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Romário

Romário de Souza Faria (born 29 January 1966), known simply as Romário, is a Brazilian politician and professional footballer.

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Ronaldinho

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born 21 March 1980), commonly known as Ronaldinho Gaúcho or simply Ronaldinho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger.

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Ruth de Souza

Ruth Pinto de Souza (May 12, 1921 – July 28, 2019) was a Brazilian actress.

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Sadistic personality disorder

Sadistic personality disorder was a proposed personality disorder defined by a pervasive pattern of sadistic and cruel behavior.

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Salvador, Bahia

Salvador is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia.

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Samba

Samba is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca (urban Carioca samba), samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba), recognized as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states.

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Santos, São Paulo

Santos (Saints), officially Municipality of Estancia Balneária de Santos is a municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas.

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Saro people

The Saro, or Nigerian Creoles of the 19th and early 20th centuries, were Africans that were emancipated and initially resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone by the Royal Navy, which, with the West Africa Squadron, enforced the abolition of the international slave trade after the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807.

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São Luís, Maranhão

São Luís (Saint Louis) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.

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São Paulo (state)

São Paulo is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.

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São Paulo Fashion Week

The São Paulo Fashion Week is a clothing trade show held semi-annually in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Sérgio Pena (geneticist)

Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena (born 17 October 1947 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian human geneticist and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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Sônia Braga

Sônia Maria Campos Braga (born 8 June 1950) is a Brazilian actress.

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Seafood

Seafood is the culinary name for food that comes from any form of sea life, prominently including fish and shellfish.

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Sergipe

Sergipe, officially State of Sergipe, is a state of Brazil.

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Sexual slavery

Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in sexual activities.

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Shango

Shango (Yoruba language: Ṣàngó, also known as Changó or Xangô in Latin America; as Jakuta or Badé; and as Ṣangó in Trinidad Orisha) is an Orisha (or spirit) in Yoruba religion.

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Simon Schwartzman

Simon Schwartzman (born July 1939 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian social scientist.

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Slavery

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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South Region, Brazil

The South Region of Brazil (Região Sul do Brasil) is one of the five regions of Brazil.

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Southeast Region, Brazil

The Southeast Region of Brazil (Região Sudeste do Brasil) is composed of the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

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Special Secretariat for Policies to Promote Racial Equality

Special Secretariat for Policies to Promote Racial Equality, Secretaria Nacional de Políticas de Promoção da Igualdade Racial (SEPPIR) is a government agency in Brazil.

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Street food

Street food is food sold by a hawker or vendor on a street or at another public place, such as a market, fair, or park.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Supreme Federal Court

The Federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal,, abbreviated STF) is the supreme court (court of last resort) of Brazil, serving primarily as the country's Constitutional Court.

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Taís Araújo

Taís Bianca Gama de Araújo (born 25 November 1978) is a Brazilian actress, TV host and model.

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Tambor de Mina

Tambor de Mina is an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition, practiced mainly in the Brazilian states of Maranhão, Piauí, Pará and the Amazon rainforest.

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Telenovela

A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America.

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Textile

Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.

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Tribe

The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group.

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TV Globo

TV Globo (stylized as tvglobo;, "Globe TV", or simply Globo and alternatively as Global), formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965.

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Twin

Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.

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Umbanda

Umbanda is a religion that emerged in Brazil in the 1920s.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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University of Brasília

The University of Brasília (Universidade de Brasília, UnB) is a federal public university in Brasília, the capital of Brazil.

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Vatapá

Vatapá (Yoruba: vata'pa) is an Afro-Brazilian dish made from bread, shrimp, coconut milk, finely ground peanuts and palm oil mashed into a creamy paste.

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Vicente Ferreira Pastinha

Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (April 5, 1889, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – November 13, 1981), known as Mestre Pastinha, was a mestre of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira and a codifier of the traditional capoeira Angola style.

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Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.

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Water scoop (hydropower)

A water scoop is a simple hydropower machine – that is, a machine used to extract power from the flow of water.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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White Americans

White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.

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White Brazilians

White Brazilians (brasileiros brancos) refers to Brazilian citizens who are considered or self-identify as "white", typically because of European or Levantine Asian ancestry. Afro-Brazilians and White Brazilians are ethnic groups in Brazil.

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Wilson Moreira

Wilson Moreira (12 December 1936 – 6 September 2018) was a Brazilian sambista.

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Y chromosome

The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes in therian mammals and other organisms.

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Yemọja

Yemọja (also: Yemaja, Yemanjá, Yemoyá, Yemayá; there are many different transliterations in other languages) is the major water spirit from the Yoruba religion.

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Yoruba people

The Yoruba people (Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.

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Zózimo Bulbul

Zózimo Bulbul (September 21, 1937 – January 24, 2013) was a Brazilian actor, filmmaker, and activist.

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Zezé Motta

Maria José Motta de Oliveira (born 27 June 1944), known as Zezé Motta, is a Brazilian actress and singer.

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2022 Brazilian census

The 2022 Brazilian Census was the thirteenth national population census in Brazilian history, and took place on August 1, 2022.

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See also

African diaspora in Brazil

Brazilian people of African descent

Race in Brazil

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Brazilians

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