Classify Machado de Assis, Brazil's Greatest Writer

[Token]

[Joso]

He was mixed, med+some black type

[Adamastor]

His father was mulatto and his mother Portuguese born in Portugal. Likely mostly Mediterranean with some black influence.

Curious how black activists, history books and even government agencies are labelling him as ''black''.

[Latinus]

Med + Negroid.

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[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Clearly more Caucasoid than your average mulato. His traits are more familiar to me than the so called African Caucasoids such as Ethiopians or Somalis.

[Latinus]

Yeah, to me, the Portuguese is strong in his phenotype, some people used say to he grew a beard in order to mask his black features.

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[Drusilla]

The Black Activist Movement is currently saying that Machado de Assis has been whitewashed for decades (source). He was the grandson of freed slaves on his father's side.

I don't know if he's been whitewashed or not, because I always see him being referred to as mulatto.

However, we can agree that Machado de Assis is one of the greatest Portuguese language writers.

[Latinus]

The Black Activist Movement is currently saying that Machado de Assis has been whitewashed for decades. He was the grandson of freed slaves on his father's side.

I don't know if he's been whitewashed or not, because I always see him being referred to as mulatto.

However, we can agree that Machado de Assis is one of the greatest Portuguese language writers.





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Dad was mulatto, mom was white, which makes him whiter/more Euro than the average pardo Brazilian, whose parents are already pardos from many generations.
Summing up: he wasn't white and neither "negão", but was more Euro than SSA. Cry me a river.

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[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Yeah, to me, the Portuguese is strong in his phenotype, some people used say to he grew a beard in order to mask his black features.

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Nonsense, carrying facial hair was the norm throughout the nineteenth century and the begining of the twentieth century. Shaving your facial hair only became the norm with the introduction of Gillette's U.S. service razor set during WWI. Name any writter from that period and you will see that the majority carried some type of facial hair.

[Latinus]

Nonsense, carrying facial hair was the norm throughout the nineteenth century and the begining of the twentieth century. Shaving your facial hair only became the norm with the introduction of Gillette's U.S. service razor set during WWI. Name any writter from that period and you will see that the majority carried some type of facial hair.

Yeah, that's why that comment bugged me.

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