Multiracial Reality, White Data: The Hidden Relations of the Racial Democracy and Education in Brazil

Brazil is the country that had the largest slave population in the Americas; it is also where the myth of racial democracy1 still persists. Unlike the United States, for instance, where race relations were built under segregationist and supremacist traditions (Skidmore, 1991), race relations in Brazil have been developed through miscegenation-the elite has attempted an assimilationist perspective in which miscegenation would incorporate other racial groups through a process of “Whitening” (Skidmore, 1992).