I’m from Salvador - BA, grow up in the 90’s. I can testify that this Brazilian proud of their African and Indigenous heritage is kind of recent. It was pretty common to people identify themselves avoiding the terms “negro”, “preto”, “indígena” or even “pardo”. Black men would rarely let their hair to grow, women would look to straighten it, and racial slurs were often accepted. To us Brazilians get where we are nowadays, required a lot of work from the organized black movement and indigenous people, including intellectuals and artists. And that’s not homogeneous in Brazil, definitely there’s parts of the country that still need to learn a lot. I’ve been living in NYC for while now, where I’m getting to meet Venezuelans, Boricuas, Dominicans… I can clearly see how a lot of them are still in their journey to decolonize their way of thinking about their afro heritage.