Racial and Social Challenges in Brazil

Latin America today has many inequalities in its social and racial classes. In many Latin American countries, the most highly populated areas are in the slums of the major cities. Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, all four of these cities have population masses near the outskirts of the city limits. These areas are mostly lower-class, sometimes below poverty-level people who have no other means of shelter over their heads except for some cardboard boxes, and if they’re lucky, some plywood or cement blocks. Why are there so many people in these areas? The answer is mass urbanization, which has taken Brazil, among other Latin American countries, to a new level of poverty among the dwellers of these urban areas. These people face extreme racial and social challenges everyday, and the end of these inequalities and challenges does not appear to be coming anytime soon.
In Brazil, like the rest of Latin America, there are many social challenges and inequalities. V...