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The date, June 27, is a
reference to the twenty-seven mixed-race ("mestiço", in Portuguese)
representatives elect during the 1st Conference for the Promotion of
Racial Equality, occurred in the City of Manaus, State of Amazon, Brazil,
from April 7 to 9, 2005, and also to the month of June, in which a mixed-race woman, after systematic opposition from anti-multiracial
Black groups, was
registered as the only Multiracial representative in the 1st National
Conference for the Promotion of Racial Equality, occurred in Brasilia,
from June 30 to July 2, 2005, promoted by Government of Brazil. The Mixed-Race Day ("Dia do Mestiço", in Portuguese) was made a official date of the
City of Manaus on January 6, 2006. On March 21, 2006, in the International
Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Mixed-Race Day
became an official date of the State of Amazon; on October 6, 2006, of the
City of Boa Vista, in the State of Roraima and on October 9, 2007, became
an official date of this State. The Mixed-Race Day pays homage all those
who possess multiracial or multiethnic origin. It occurs three days
after the Day of the Caboclo, the first mixed-race Brazilian.
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LAW N.º 3,044, MARCH 21, 2.006
IT INSTITUTES, in the scope of the State of Amazon, the “Mixed-Race
Day", recognizing as ethnic-racial group, in the form that specifies
and gives other steps.
The GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF AMAZON
I MAKE TO KNOW to all the
inhabitants that the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY decreed and I sanction the
present
LAW:
Art. 1º. It is instituted, in the scope of the State of Amazon, the “Mixed-Race
Day”, in homage to the historical Amazon person Alvaro Botelho Maia,
defending of the characteristic human type of the way of the Amazon,
the caboclo ribeirinho, to be commemorated annually in the day
of June 27.
Art. 2º. The State of Amazon recognizes the Mixed-Race [people] as a
ethnic-racial group and subject of the Amazonian right.
Only paragraph. It is assured the mixed-race representation in public
agencies, advice, conferences, phoruns and other instances of social
control that possess participation of ethnic, racial and cultural
groups.
Art. 3º. In the terms of this Law, the “Day of the Mestizo” will be
enclosed in the official calendar of events of the State of Amazon.
§ 1º. With respect to the commemoration related in the caput of
this article, the Executive will carry through annual events, in the
day June 27, that have as bigger purpose to homage the Amazonian
culture and mixed-race identity.
§ 2º. The commemorative events that the present Law deals are under
the joint responsibility of the State Secretariat of Culture - SEC,
State Secretariat of the Education and Teaching Quality - SEDUC and
State Secretary of Justice and Human Right - SEJUS.
Art. 4º. They are elect, as civic protectors of the mixed-race people,
the anthropologists Gilberto Freyre and Darcy Ribeiro, defenders of
the mixed-race as Brazilian national ethnic identity.
Art. 5º. The disposals in the opposite are revoked, this law enters in
vigor in the date of its publication.
CABINET OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF AMAZON, in Manaus, March 21,
2.006.
EDUARDO BRAGA
Governor of the State
JOSE ALVES PACIFICO
Secretary of State Head of the Civil House
ROBÉRIO DOS SANTOS PEREIRA BRAGA
Secretary of State of Culture
GEDEÃO TIMÓTEO AMORIM
Secretary of State of the Education and Theaching Quality
CARLOS LÉLIO LAURIA FERREIRA
Secretary of State of Justice and Human Right
Published in Official Gazette of the State of Amazon, 21/03/2006. The
author of the law project was the member of the Legislative Assembly
Sabá Reis (PL), receiving substitute from the member of the
Legislative Assembly Evilázio Nascimento (PL). |
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