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Thousands of Brazilians who won elections as Black candidates in 2020 previously ran for office as white

  • Written by Andrew Janusz, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
Thousands of Brazilians who won elections as Black candidates in 2020 previously ran for office as whiteBrazilian politicians' newfound embrace of Blackness leaves some of their Afro-Brazilian constituents skeptical.Dimitrii_Guzhanin/Getty

Brazil is undergoing a strange racial reckoning after bombshell revelations that thousands of veteran politicians had changed their self-identified race between the 2016 and 2020 elections.

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