Brazil boasts the second largest Black population in the world outside of Africa, but black Brazilians constitute a large portion of the poor, similar to the demographic of the United States. However, race in Brazil can be defined differently than in the United States. The Washington Post Style editor Eugene Robinson, author of Coal To Cream, shares insights into the prickly issue of race in America and in many other countries where the national population is controlled by the false social constructs of race and racism. (2321)
