Slavery
This economic staple of Brazil was largely seen as the primary reason for the country's abundant involvement in slave trading.
What is a sugar plantation?
This Brazilian city hold the largest Black population in the entire country.
What is Salvador?
The year in which slavery was abolished in Brazil.
When was 1888?
This art was created as a means for African slaves to trick their masters in thinking they were dancing, when in actuality they were performing martial arts.
What is Capoeira?
This woman rose from a slave to one of the wealthiest women in her town as she was freed by her partner, an affluent diamond merchant.
Who is Chica de Silva?
The amount of slaves brought into Brazil.
What is 4.8 million?
This female feature is largely seen as an "ugly" characteristic, though many Black women in Brazil are starting to embrace their African heritage through this feature.
What is afro hair?
A process established by Brazilian government after the abolition of slavery to combat potential Black prosperity.
What is Blanqueamiento?
This religion was founded in the late 19th-Century and sees a blending of African Yoruba gods with aspects of Catholicism.
What is Condomble?
Born in 1900, this White man was a renowned scholar, preaching that Blacks are integral members of Brazilian life and culture.
Who is Gilberto Freyre?
A church primarily built by the slave and free black population in Salvador.
What is the Church of Sao Francisco Church and Convent?
The skin color "Black" has roughly this many subcategories.
What is 100 subcategories?
A term that describes the setting aside of 20% of the public school slots for people of African descent.
What is Affirmative Action?
This renowned Capoeira teacher is the owner and master at Valle Das Padrino's.
Who is Master Bois Gentei?
This Black activist advocated against the laws put in place to "white-wash" the Black history in Brazil.
Who is Manuel Querino?
The difference between slavery in America and Brazil as described by Dr. Gaetz.
What is escaping their blackness?
With Brazil having the second largest Black population in the world, this nation has the most.
What is Nigeria?
This action was taken in order to "white-wash" the population of Brazil and erase Black existence.
What is paying Europeans to migrate to Brazil?
This actress was known for playing the historical character Chica de Silva, though she later in life became an activist for Black opportunity in Brazil.
Who is Zeze Motta?
This Brazilian rapper turned activist has remained living in the slums of Brazil even after gaining wealth and fame.
Who is MC Bill?
With sugar being the primary concern in the 16th- and 17th-Centuries, this natural resource became Brazil's main focus for slave labor.
What is gold?
This is Brazil's most well known Capoeira school.
What is Valle Das Padrino's?
This ideology is used to describe Brazil's "unique, truly multicultural nation", claiming it is free of any racism.
What is Racial Democracy?
A term to describe how the African population in Brazil transformed their original religion to create a new one that included concepts from both Catholicism and Yoruba.
What is Institutional Transformation?
This 96 year old artist, writer, professor and former Senator has been fighting for Black rights for three quarters of a century and is widely known as Brazil's greatest activist and intellectual.
Who is Abdias Nascimento?