To my understanding the samba, "Nega do Cabela Duro" or “Black Woman with the Hard Hair”, was created during the …show more content…
Slavery was one of the battles that Brazil had to overcome in order to make peace with everybody’s cultural or race. In a very short time period, Brazil eliminated slavery in 1888 and merged their cultures (black and white) beginning in the 1930’s into today’s Brazil. The “Mystery of Samba” also created a larger impact on Brazil’s perception of mixed race people. Before this, Brazilian intellectuals viewed people who were mixed race as a negative or bad thing. Now, they look at race-mixed people in a new, positive light. Some may even call the color