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Black in Latin America, Ep. 03 Brazil: A Racial Paradise?

Black in Latin America, Ep. 03 Brazil: A Racial Paradise?

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In Brazil, Professor Gates goes behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this “rainbow nation” is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.

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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and Hispanic worlds meet.

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