Portuguese Brazilians
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Portuguese Brazilians are Brazilian citizens whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Portugal. Most of the Portuguese who arrived throughout the centuries in Brazil sought economic opportunities
Brazilians of Portuguese descent in Santos
Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral (center-left, pointing) sights the Brazilian mainland for the first time on 22 April 1500.
The first Mass in Brazil among the native Indians on 26 April 1500. Painting by Victor Meirelles (1860).
Carioca Aqueduct in Rio de Janeiro as depicted by Leandro Joaquim (1790).
Afro-Brazilians
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Afro-Brazilians, also known as Black Brazilians, are Brazilians of total or predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Most multiracial Brazilians also have varying ranges of African ancestry. Brazil
Actress Camila Pitanga self-identifies as black, but only 27% of Brazilians consider her as such and 36% view her as parda, according to a Datafolha survey.
Former football player Romário is seen as pardo by 51% of Brazilians and as Black by 31%, according to a Datafolha survey.
Slave from Brazil photographed by Augusto Stahl (c. 1865)
Berimbau player, by Jean-Baptiste Debret, 1826