A Racial Paradise? Race and Race Mixture in Henry Louis Gates' Brazil

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Notes

1. Their use of the term negra and not negro reflected a response to the term cor, which is feminine, not masculine. Another response could have been ‘Eu sou negro’ or ‘I am black.’ They mean the same thing.

2. This suggests a way that racial and color categories can be conflated in Brazil and contradicts Sheriff's (2004) assertion that negro is never used as a color term.