Editing National myth (section)

===Brazil===
The national myth of [[Brazil]] as a [[racial democracy]] was first advanced by Brazilian sociologist [[Gilberto Freyre]] in his 1933 work ''[[Casa-Grande & Senzala]]'', which argues that Brazilians do not view each other through the lens of race, and that Brazilian society eliminated racism and racial discrimination. Freyre's theory became a source of national pride for Brazil, which contrasted itself favorably vis-a-vis the contemporaneous racial divisions and violence in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hanchard |first1=Michael George |title=Orpheus and power: the Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, 1945 - 1988 |date=1998 |publisher=Princeton Univ. Press |location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=9780691002705 |edition=4.printing, and 1. paperback printing |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691002705/orpheus-and-power |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ansell |first1=Aaron |title=Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro , Jennifer Roth-Gordon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017, 248 pp. $85.00, cloth. ISBN 9780520293793. |journal=Journal of Anthropological Research |date=December 2018 |volume=74 |issue=4 |pages=577–578 |doi=10.1086/700933 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700933 |language=en |issn=0091-7710}}</ref>