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In Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, the Pardo
Pardo

In Brazil, the Pardos are a mixture of White Brazilians, Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous peoples in Brazil, varying from light to dark complexion, as used by the IBGE in censuses since 1950....
s are a mixture of White
White Brazilian

According to the IBGE's 2006 PNAD , White Brazilians make up 49.7% of Brazil's population, or around 93 million people. Whites are present in the entire territory of Brazil, although the main concentrations are found in the Southern Brazil and Southeastern Brazil parts of the country....
s, Blacks
Afro-Brazilian

Afro-Brazilian, or Black Brazilian, is the term used to Race categorize Brazilian citizens who self-reported to be of black or brown skin colors to the official IBGE census....
 and Amerindians
Indigenous peoples in Brazil

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500....
, varying from light to dark complexion, as used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
IBGE

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE , is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartography, geodetic and Natural environment information in Brazil....
 (IBGE) in censuses since 1950. The word is Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
 for "brown" or "grey-brown". The other classifications are branco ("White
White people

White people is a term which is usually used to refer to Human characterized, at least in part, by the light Human skin color. It often refers narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe....
"), negro ("Black
Black people

Black people is a term usually referring to a Race of humans with a dark skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse populations into one common group....
"), amarelo ("yellow", meaning East Asians
Asian people

Asian or Asiatic people is a demonym for people from Asia. However, the use of the term varies by country and person, often referring to people from a particular region or subregion of Asia....
), and indígena ("indigenous", meaning Amerindians
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
).

Pardo is a broad classification that encompasses Brazilians of mixed race ancestry, mulatto
Mulatto

Mulatto denotes a person with one White people parent and one Black people parent or a person who has black ancestry and white ancestry. It is perceived as pejorative and demeaning in some cultures....
s, and assimilated indigenous people ("caboclos
Caboclo

A caboclo is a term used in Brazil describing a person of mixed Indigenous peoples in Brazil and White people descent. In Brazil, a caboclo is a specific type of mestizo....
").

Pardo began as a miscellany, or "none of the above" racial category.






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In Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, the Pardo
Pardo

In Brazil, the Pardos are a mixture of White Brazilians, Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous peoples in Brazil, varying from light to dark complexion, as used by the IBGE in censuses since 1950....
s are a mixture of White
White Brazilian

According to the IBGE's 2006 PNAD , White Brazilians make up 49.7% of Brazil's population, or around 93 million people. Whites are present in the entire territory of Brazil, although the main concentrations are found in the Southern Brazil and Southeastern Brazil parts of the country....
s, Blacks
Afro-Brazilian

Afro-Brazilian, or Black Brazilian, is the term used to Race categorize Brazilian citizens who self-reported to be of black or brown skin colors to the official IBGE census....
 and Amerindians
Indigenous peoples in Brazil

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500....
, varying from light to dark complexion, as used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
IBGE

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE , is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartography, geodetic and Natural environment information in Brazil....
 (IBGE) in censuses since 1950. The word is Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
 for "brown" or "grey-brown". The other classifications are branco ("White
White people

White people is a term which is usually used to refer to Human characterized, at least in part, by the light Human skin color. It often refers narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe....
"), negro ("Black
Black people

Black people is a term usually referring to a Race of humans with a dark skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse populations into one common group....
"), amarelo ("yellow", meaning East Asians
Asian people

Asian or Asiatic people is a demonym for people from Asia. However, the use of the term varies by country and person, often referring to people from a particular region or subregion of Asia....
), and indígena ("indigenous", meaning Amerindians
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
).

Pardo is a broad classification that encompasses Brazilians of mixed race ancestry, mulatto
Mulatto

Mulatto denotes a person with one White people parent and one Black people parent or a person who has black ancestry and white ancestry. It is perceived as pejorative and demeaning in some cultures....
s, and assimilated indigenous people ("caboclos
Caboclo

A caboclo is a term used in Brazil describing a person of mixed Indigenous peoples in Brazil and White people descent. In Brazil, a caboclo is a specific type of mestizo....
").

Pardo began as a miscellany, or "none of the above" racial category. The first census of the 20th century to ask a colour question was the census of 1940. Colour was determined by the census enumerator, and the three options were white, black, and yellow. If the respondent did not fit into any of the categories, the enumerator simply drew a horizontal line. When the census data came to be tabulated, all responses with horizontal lines were collected into the single category of "pardo". The IBGE excluded pardo as an answer in response to the rise of European fascism at the time, as an assurance to the public that census data would not be used for discriminatory purposes. In the 1950 census, "pardo" was actually added as a choice of answer, and colour was chosen by the respondent instead of being determined by the enumerator.

Unofficially, Brazilians also use a racial classification of "moreno
Moreno

Moreno is Spanish language, Portuguese language and Tagalog language for a Sun tanning or Human skin color person. In origin the term was used to refer to a person with Brown hair or Black hair Hair color, regardless of Human skin color or Eye color , nowadays both meanings co-exist....
", a word that also means "brown". In a 1995 survey, 32% of the population self-identified as "moreno", with a further 6% self-identifying as "moreno claro" ("light brown"), and 7% self-identified as "pardo". Telles describes both classifications as "biologically invalid", but sociologically significant.

Pardo was also a casta
Casta

Casta is a Portuguese language and Spanish language term used in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mainly in Hispanic America to describe as a whole the mixed-race people which appeared in the Spanish colonization of the Americas....
 classification used in Colonial Spanish America
Hispanic America

Hispanic America is strictly the region comprising the Americas countries inhabited by Spanish language-speaking populations. It was historically known as Spanish America in English language, and "Hispanoam?rica" in Spanish....
 from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and was more or less synonymous with Mulatto
Mulatto

Mulatto denotes a person with one White people parent and one Black people parent or a person who has black ancestry and white ancestry. It is perceived as pejorative and demeaning in some cultures....
.