Race relations in Mozambique: an introductory note

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate racial relations are structured in Mozambican society, especially from the period to be called of late colonialism, with the introduction of the Political Statute, Social and Criminal Indigenous of Angola and Mozambique, 1926. Colonial Act 1930, The Organic Charter of the Portuguese Colonial Empire and Administrative Reform Overseas, 1933 and finally the status of Portuguese Natives of the Provinces of Guinea, Angola and Mozambique, approved by Decree-Law of 20 May 1954, abolished in 1961 which was used as layering coding hierarchy and exclusion of colonized black. To understand the underlying interests on this issue, today it is necessary to associate it with political processes of post- independence.