Immigration law names European ancestry as a national preference

Decree-Law 406 reorganized rules for foreign entry and residence, including the operation of national immigration quotas and requirements for visas. It extended a restrictive framework that had been...

Decree-Law 1,402 established procedures for union recognition, registration, representation, and contributions. The Vargas regime recognized unions within a state-controlled framework, restricting...

Decree-Law 2,162 instituted a statutory minimum wage and set regional schedules. A wage floor recognized workers as people with claims on employers, but protections depended on which sectors and...

Decree-Law 5,452 approved the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), organizing many existing labor rules. Its exclusions left domestic service and much rural work outside key protections. Since...

Abdias do Nascimento founded the Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN) in Rio de Janeiro on 13 October 1944. The organization challenged the exclusion and stereotyped casting of Black performers while...

Decree-Law 8,079 revised Article 7 of the CLT, listing domestic workers and rural workers among those to whom most provisions did not apply. The legal split was not written as a race clause, but it...

The first issue of Quilombo: vida, problemas e aspirações do negro appeared on 9 December 1948, linked to the Teatro Experimental do Negro. Under Abdias do Nascimento’s coordination, the periodical...

Law 1,390, sanctioned on 3 July 1951, classified certain acts motivated by racial or color prejudice as criminal contraventions. The law followed public exposure of discrimination, including the...

Law 4,214 set out a labor framework for rural workers, including employment relations and access to labor protections. Its passage recognized a large workforce long left outside the main urban labor...

Decree 65,810 of 8 December 1969 promulgated Brazil’s adherence to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The convention established international...