Actress Raquel Villar of Rio de Janeiro – Photo Gallery 2
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Month: December 2012
After much promise and hype of 90% black cast, Subúrbia TV series descends into familiar clichés and stereotypes about black Brazilians
Back in September when I first read the news that Brazil’s biggest TV network, Globo, was producing a new TV series that featured a 90% Afro-Brazilian […]
The women of the NGO Estimativa: Overcoming invisibility
by Fabiana Oliveira Re.Fem: rapper and videographer A group of women from the periphery of Rio de Janeiro came together using art to inform and protest […]
Seminar "Blacks in the Media": Even with progress, whiteness remains the standard; blacks advance only when validated by the white system
Seminar “Blacks in the Media” featuring journalist Joyce Ribeiro (right) “I got into TV through an opening: let’s put a black on presenting the […]
Documentary "City of Women" explores the African-derived religion of Candomblé in Brazil’s northeast
A Cidade das Mulheres is a 72-minute documentary directed by Lázaro Faria that explores the Candomblé, an African derived religion that gave black Brazilian women power and […]
Actress Nanda Lisboa of Salvador, Bahia – Photo Gallery 1
Actress Nanda Lisboa of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil See more photos below For more photos of Nanda, click here
Actress Nanda Lisboa of Salvador, Bahia – Photo Gallery 2
Actress Nanda Lisboa of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil More photos below For more photos of Nanda, click here
From 2002-2010, 272,422 Afro-Brazilians murdered: Numbers equal to a country at war – Rates rise for blacks while falling for whites
While the homicide rate of whites in the country fell 24.8% from 2002 to 2010, that of the the black population grew by 5.6% in […]
Angela Davis declares support of the black Brazilian women’s march; rally seeks to bring together at least 100,000 women
Valdecir Nascimento of the Odara Institute of Black Women with Angela Davis Rally seeks to bring together at least 100,000 black women The executive coordinator […]
Actress Cinara Leal of Rio de Janeiro
Actress Cinara Leal of Rio de Janeiro See more photos below
Afro-Brazilians make up 76% of population in three states and are the majority in 56.8% of Brazilian cities; racial inequality still persists
Photo: Núcleo de Estudos Afro-Brasileiros (Neab) Prejudice in relation to skin color is still a reality faced by blacks today. Anthropologist Maria de Lourdes Siqueira, who […]
Thais Trigo, model, fashion producer from Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro
Thais Trigo is a 21-year old model, and fashion producer and columnist for select journals. Filling a void, she decided to work with girls that […]
Thais Trigo, model, fashion producer from Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Part 2
Thais Trigo is a model, fashion columnist and talent scout from Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. For more about her and more photos, click here
Blond ambition: the Brazilian Media’s Manufacturing of the white woman as standard of beauty and the place of black women
Top row: Sabrina Sato, Luciana Gimenez, Angélica, Eliana Bottom row: Renata Fan, Amanda Françoso, Patrícia Poeta “In a society aesthetically governed by a white paradigm…the […]
