Afro-Brazilian
African-descended South American
Afro-Brazilian describes people, culture, or traditions in Brazil with African origins, particularly from the descendants of enslaved Africans brought during the colonial period.
The term encompasses distinctive cultural expressions including capoeira, candomblé, samba, and Afro-Brazilian cuisine: Afro-Brazilian religious practices blend African and Catholic elements.
As a noun, an Afro-Brazilian is a Brazilian of African descent.
Brazilian martial dance form
Afro-Brazilian celebratory dance
Spanning the ocean between continents
- slaveryOwnership of people
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- dispersalSpreading in many directions
- migrationMovement to new territory
enslaved · abolition · resistance · community · transnational · identity · roots · ancestry
Capacity to withstand force
capoeira
Brazilian martial dance form
samba
Afro-Brazilian celebratory dance
transatlantic
Spanning the ocean between continents
- slaveryOwnership of people
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- dispersalSpreading in many directions
migration · enslaved · abolition · resistance · community · transnational · identity · roots · ancestry · returnees
resistance
Capacity to withstand force
mulatto
Mixed-race person, archaic
racial · phenotype · census · self-identification · ancestry · mixed-race · colorism
- BrazilRio, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Amazon River
- Afro- wordsAfro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, Afro-Asian, Afro-European, Afro-Arab
- Afro-Latin musicsalsa, cumbia, reggae, merengue, bachata
- Black Diasporamotherland, pan-Africanism, maroons, creole culture, spirituals
- Hyphenated IdentitiesMexican-American, Irish-American, Italian-American, Chinese-American, Japanese-American
- South AmericanArgentinian, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian