History of the Negro People; 4; Brazil: The Vanishing Negro

Video Description

This vivid documentary, filmed in Brazil, explores the experience of 30 million Negroes in the country reputed to be a "racial paradise." Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado, historian Gilberto Freyre, Professor Thales de Azevado an anthropologist, Columbia University professor Marvin Harris, and other experts on Brazil appear in on-camera interviews. Ossie Davis is narrator. In Brazil, a melting pot of people and races, the experience of the Negro differs fundamentally from that of the North American Negro. Ossie Davis and guest experts explore Brazil's past and present for an explanation and appraisal of this unique experience.