In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. (Henry Louis Gates)

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

Henry Louis Gates

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