Race in Brazil

I just heard a BBC story that blacks now outnumber whites in Brazil. The interesting part? Race is self defined in Brazil, from three choices: White, Black, Brown. It's purely color based, though there is the assumption that coloring is closely correlated with ethnicity. They then had a scientist on the program explaining how a genetic study he did runs against popular wisdom, many people who considered themselves Black had significant European genetic heritage, some even majority European.

I wonder what racism is like in Brazil, is it similar to what we see in North America or do they focus on different things?

This reminded me of a discussion my book club had of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. A couple people had experience with Caribbean views on color. The view is definitely color based, indeed Black and White are dependent on what you look like at the moment. One girl (a northern midwest probably-burns-not-tans white girl) spent time as an exchange student on one of the Caribbean islands. She went for a weekend trip to the beach and her host family warned her "Stay out of the sun, if you come back Black, we won't let you in the house." She didn't have the heart to explain to them that, in the US, her host family wouldn't be considered white. Despite this highly fluid concept of color, there is significant racism against "Blacks."

I wonder what the face of racism is in Brazil.