24 May 2011

BRASIL: Survey Says Blacks Outnumber Whites...For 1st Time.

M.HERALD/ T. Barnes

     A recently released 2010 survey claims Brasil...for the first time...has become a “majority minority” nation...with less than half the population identified as white.
     Every minority racial group – officially “black,” “pardo” (mixed), “yellow” and “indigena” – has grown since 2000.
     But “White” was the only group that shrank...to 48% of the population from 53% a decade ago.
    “The phenomenon I perceive are people getting out of that pressure to whiten themselves, and assuming their blackness,” says a S. Paulo artist.