Workbook
For Afro-Brazilian Families
Blackness in the Country of 'Racial Democracy'
Brazil told you race did not matter here. Your family's experience told a different story.
For the Afro-Brazilian family who carries African heritage and cultural practices and wants to name their Black Brazilian identity beyond what the racial democracy myth allows.
The Name It First Experience
Afro-Brazilian families carry centuries of slavery, the myth of racial democracy, and some of the richest African-derived cultural traditions in the world. For Afro-Brazilian Families examines what you live with — the reality behind the national narrative, the African heritage that survived, and what Black Brazilian identity means when named on your own terms. The output is not a critique of Brazil. It is The Afro-Brazilian Identity Document — your family declaration.
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Sample questions
- What does Black Brazilian identity mean in your household — and which African-derived cultural traditions does your family carry?
- What does it mean to be Black in a country that said race doesn't exist here — and has your family named that contradiction directly?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about Afro-Brazilian identity — not the carnival version, but the full one?
Research basis
Cross on Nigrescence applied to Brazilian context / Crenshaw on intersectionality / Hasenbalg on race and inequality in Brazil / Twine on racial identity among Afro-Brazilians.
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