![]() ![]() They are looking at you because you're really cute.' I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh. "I was like, 'Mom, why are people looking at me that much?' And she was like, 'Girl, it is because you are so gorgeous. ![]() I remember walking into a restaurant and people staring at us,” Iza says. Unlike Olaria, the neighborhood in Rio where Iza was born, Natal was a predominately white and pardo community. As with many countries in the Americas, communities of the African diaspora are stratified by skin color. Pardo is a term used to refer to multiracial Brazilians preto refers specifically to dark-skinned Black Brazilians, like Iza and her family. Emancipation was followed by embranquecimento, an ideology that promoted the mixing of races to "whiten" the overall population. ![]() Brazil was the last nation in the Americas to abolish slavery. ![]()
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