Luiz de Aguiar Costa Pinto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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sociologist
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Place of Birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
About Luiz de Aguiar Costa Pinto
- Luiz de Aguiar Costa Pinto (February 6, 1920 – November 1, 2002) was a Brazilian sociologist.
- In his work, Costa Pinto specialized in race relations in Brazil.
- He was one of the authors of the landmark UNESCO statement The Race Question, in 1950.
- In the latter part of his career, in Canada, Costa Pinto taught first at Queen's University, and then at the University of Waterloo. He was a member of the first generation of major contemporary Brazilian sociologists, working with Florestan Fernandes, Roger Bastide, Oracy Nogueira and Thales de Azevedo.
- Costa Pinto was born in Salvador, and died in Waterloo, Canada.
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