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Brazil: The Vanishing Negro (1965-11-02)

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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.

Directors & creators

National Educational Television and Radio Center

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Ossie Davis, Jorge Amado, Gilberto Freyre, Thales de Azevedo, Marvin Harris, Bartolome de las Casas, Maria Alves, National Educational Television, slavery in Brazil, racial integration, race relations in Brazil, African diaspora, Bahia, Brazil, Salvador, Brazil, abolition of slavery in Brazil, History of the Negro People

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