Brazil is located in the south of the American continent. The country was colonized by Portugal and endured 350 years of the slavery of Black Africans and a whitening process (called Black genocide by the Black Brazilian scholar Abdias do Nascimento). This history resulted in a large Black and mixed-Black population that amounts to 51% of the total inhabitants according to the 2010 Census. The indigenous population amounts to 0.4% after a colonization process that killed millions. Today, the official number of those registered as native Brazilians is 300,000.

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics works with the following race/skin color categories: White, Yellow (Asians), indigenous, Mixed (pardo, i.e., mixed-Black), and Black. In Brazil, mixed race and Black people constitute the Black population of the ...