Encouraging interracial relationships, or ‘race mixing’ in some Latin American countries such as Brazil and Colombia, are often believed to be examples of how to solve racism. Race is not considered a problem because everyone is ‘mixed’. Unlike the United States, some countries have historically promoted interracial marriages and relationships among African, Indigenous, and European people. Does ‘race mixing’ create racial tolerance and harmony in some Latin American countries? Truth or myth? Do sex and race often feed on each other, and find an uneasy way to coexist in the same space? Some
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