On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> wrote: > My experience differs from his. In my experience most people think of > Brazilians as "brown" people - some beautiful exotic hybrid, but > definitively non-white. Brazil is a fascinating model in how race may become > an obsolete concept in practice.
Brazil is definitely more racially integrated than most countries that have a similar mix, like say the US. However one only has to watch Brazilian cinema, or visit the college campuses and favelas to see that race, opportunity and income have a rather unhealthy correlation.
