The other user posted as a source a book which is not avaible online which seems not to be correct when there s a conflict of content going on Moreover the term Pardo was used in the 19th century more to describe a free slave than a person of mixed race heritage Moreover in Brazil people self report their race and nobody is able to say what race another person is without using a source reporting what race the person reported to be And race in Brazil is more based on skin color and a Mulato person can be described as Black Mulato itself or even White and it depends of his her skin color I already asked a third opinion about an user describing another person s race without source