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Tropical Multiculturalism 
in the 1930s, the situation of blacks improved somewhat as immigration declined and ideological winds shifted. the 1930s were the era of the afro-Brazilian conference 1940. it was in 1937 and of the vlack brazilian conference 1940. it was in 1934 that article 113 of the brazilian constitution declared that ” all are equal before the law and that there will be no privileges or distinctions by reason of birth, sex, race , profession, country, social class, wealth, religious belief, or political ideas. it was also in the 1930s that afro-brazilians in são paulo formed a frente negra brasileira the black brazilian front to protest precisely against the samea discriminations based on race, wealth, and social class presumably prohibited by the constituition, in a movement that mobilized thousands of blacks Before it was banned by the populist dictator vargas in 1938. 
at the same time, anthropologist gilberto freyre, a student of the antiracist franz boas, formulated the theory of racial democracy in his 1933 casa grande e senzala literally, big house and the slave quarters but translated as the masters and the slaves). 
rather than see afro-brazilians as the cause of brazils inferiority freyre emphasized the many-faceted contribuition of blacks and indians to brazils cultural mix. in the patriarchal system typical of brazilian slavery, according to freyre, african influences carried by black cooks and mammies allowed for a certain cultural democracy. unlike other multiracial societies in the americas, Brazilian Social Life was characterized by exceptional familiarity between the races

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