During live televised Carnaval coverage, blond host refers to funk singer’s afro wig as a ‘brillo pad’
Note from BW of Brazil: So what else is new? I mean, it’s Brazil, which hopefully our readers know by now is nowhere near the […]
Month: February 2016
“Too black for Brazil”: British documentary details one woman’s rise and fall due to the politics of skin tone
Note from BW of Brazil: In the past few days, the BW of Brazil blog has been attracting numerous new readers due to a recent […]
At one federal university, the number of black professors in Brazil’s public universities generates debate
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s a logical conclusion/question. If it’s only been within a little over a decade that Afro-Brazilians have been entering […]
“Many see a monkey, I see Aladdin’s best friend”: Father apologizes after dressing his black son as Abu from Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ cartoon
Note from BW of Brazil: Hmm, OK, so how should we file this? Should we label it under “we Brazilians aren’t racists”? The “difficulty of […]
For Carnaval, please don’t dress up as ‘Nega Maluca’ (crazy black woman), it’s not funny!
Note from BW of Brazil: From the time we first featured a report about the infamous “Nega Maluca” character and costume several years ago, we’ve […]
A call for end of the “Globeleza Mulata”: A Manifesto
Note from BW of Brazil: As most fans of Brazil’s most exuberant, most exciting time of the year already know, it’s Carnaval time! But in […]
‘But my father’s black!’: After making a video wearing blackface, blond You Tuber tries to justify herself and makes the situation worse
Note from BW of Brazil: Ah, Brazil Brazil! At it again huh? Yet another Brazilian adds to the recent obsession of wearing blackface to make […]
Subliminal message or just a creative display? Black mannequin hung upside down by its feet in a window display of a Rio shopping mall
Note from BW of Brazil: Today’s story is so typical of Brazil. It’s one of those stories in which people will most definitely declare a […]
Once again shattering myths: Scores of quota students entering Federal University exceeded those of non-quota students on last entrance exam
Note from BW of Brazil: Often times in life, things aren’t coincidences at all; sometimes two events happen the way that two because they were […]
Elite backlash against affirmative action continues: Racism in comments of Globo TV journalist provokes outrage among students and professor
Note from BW of Brazil: If you didn’t already know, Brazil is one of the most socially unequal countries on the world and it didn’t […]
