Brazil with more socially-accepted, mobile black population

Just read in a Lonely planet book on Brazil today, that 62% of Afro-Brazilians still live in poverty, due to the colour & class stratification which has existed since colonial times, with black Brazilians being chronically under-represented or absent in most areas of society such as political leadership, higher education, economic development etc. How could this issue be addressed so that the lot of black Brazilians developed better, perhaprs by say 1888 ?
 
Perhaps the solution would be earlier desanfrinchisement, by the time of the Regency on the 1830s. Or even better, coupled with earlier industrialization.

Another way for this could be with the African colonies staying with Brazil post-independence, so that the Angolan and Congolese elites could be seen as allies; while this would not have an immediate effect on the large poor black population, it could lead to an earlier dissociation between colour and income, leading later, perhaps, to some of those African elites taking the banner of abolutionism and black rights.

The key here is to avoid the long association between blacks and slaves, and most of all, make abolutionism mainstream among some of the nobility pre-1880's, or even pre-Paraguay War.
 
Just read in a Lonely planet book on Brazil today, that 62% of Afro-Brazilians still live in poverty, due to the colour & class stratification which has existed since colonial times, with black Brazilians being chronically under-represented or absent in most areas of society such as political leadership, higher education, economic development etc. How could this issue be addressed so that the lot of black Brazilians developed better, perhaprs by say 1888 ?

I recall reading(not sure if this is true or not, but it is quite plausible) that by the 1860's and early 1870's, there was a small, but growing, urban middle-class sector composed of ex-slaves and freeborn blacks in Brazil. By the 1900's, they were mostly gone - European immigrants had took their place. Assuming the above statements are true, if you find a way to revert this situation, you get your scenario.
 

Valdemar II

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I think it quite simple anyone well of Blacks with some White ancestorship, simply change identification to Pardo, and will often marry Whites, which leaves only the poor Blacks with a Black identification. If you want to change that you need some kind of one-drop rule.
 
I recall reading(not sure if this is true or not, but it is quite plausible) that by the 1860's and early 1870's, there was a small, but growing, urban middle-class sector composed of ex-slaves and freeborn blacks in Brazil. By the 1900's, they were mostly gone - European immigrants had took their place. Assuming the above statements are true, if you find a way to revert this situation, you get your scenario.

Actually as late as the 1920's you could find an important black urban middle-class in some cities. If you look at photos from the graduation of new teachers for public schools in Rio in the 1910's you can notice that many of them were black. But when you find photos from the 1930's all the blacks disappeared, replaced by white immigrants.
 
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