American style racial segregation in Brazil

Anyway Brazil could adopt American Style racial segregation after the end of Slavery both de jure and de facto.

What would be the impact on Brazil

What would be the likely racial divisions
 

Marc

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Sheer numbers of Afro-Brazilians and Portuguese culture - ironically both the most enthusiastic slavers and yet more open about crossing the color line - would make it a challenge.
 
Anyway Brazil could adopt American Style racial segregation after the end of Slavery both de jure and de facto.

What would be the impact on Brazil

What would be the likely racial divisions
My assumption is that Brazil never adopted de jure segregation because it's just so racially mixed. Most white Brazilians have a not-insignificant degree of African or Amerindian blood, thus making an Anglo-American style One Drop Rule impossible (non-Hispanic White Americans are 98% European on average, with many having no Non-European DNA at all).
 
My assumption is that Brazil never adopted de jure segregation because it's just so racially mixed. Most white Brazilians have a not-insignificant degree of African or Amerindian blood, thus making an Anglo-American style One Drop Rule impossible (non-Hispanic White Americans are 98% European on average, with many having no Non-European DNA at all).

This is not really a correct assessment... Racial admixture between native peoples, Africans and Europeans did not occur as part of a sort of organic cultural movement, at least no more so than the same in the ‘US’. Rather, this racial mixing occurred through the lens and political mechanism of whitening, that is state mandated mixing of Europeans into existing African populaces recently ‘liberated’ from slavery. Meanwhile, said European migrants and plantation owners, were left as previously in a post-colonial society ran by them, for them. The opinions of the advocates of race mixing or whitening in Brazil, were not such that it was a policy of liberal values but deriving from their view that through racial admixtures, they could nullify the African existence and experience in Brazil and with enough European migrants and mixing, create new ‘whites’.
 
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