Eliane Cavalleiro, researcher and Ph.D in education
Eliane Cavalleiro earned a Ph.D in education and has written extensively about the affects of racism against Afro-Brazilian children in Brazilian schools. From a very […]
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Eliane Cavalleiro
Eliane Cavalleiro earned a Ph.D in education and has written extensively about the affects of racism against Afro-Brazilian children in Brazilian schools. From a very […]
Racism in the Life of a Black Child begins in day care | Black Brazil
Racism in the Life of a Black Child begins in daycare | Black Brazil Note from BW of Brazil: Coming from an academic perspective, we’ve […]
“I’m going to kill you, you stinking monkey!”: 12-year old black girl bullied, threatened and humiliated by another child; school tries to sweep incident under rug
“I’m going to kill you, you stinking monkey!”: 12-year old black girl bullied, threatened and humiliated by another child; school tries to sweep incident under […]
Black students learn less when we don’t believe in their potential – How some schools are improving grades by raising self-esteem of black children and teens
Note from BW of Brazil: Understanding the Brazilian education system is a key element to understanding how structural racism continuously undermines the black population. Of […]
“My racist professor” hashtag exposes shocking recollections of racial discrimination experienced by black students in schools and universities
Note from BW of Brazil: In reality, there shouldn’t be anything shocking or even surprising about the existence of racism in Brazilian schools because it’s […]
Police investigate racial discrimination in public day care in nation’s capital region: teacher washed hair of all students except black girl because she had “hard hair”
Note from BW of Brazil: By now most of this blog’s regular readers know that Brazil has a serious racial problem. It’s been well-documented here […]
When discussing racism, why does the media never question the racist? Globo TV exploits the emotional vulnerability of black children to ‘combat’ racism
Note from BW of Brazil: Infuriated. That’s the word that about captured my mood as I watched a segment on Globo TV’s annual “Criança Esperança” […]
“Black children are more punished than white,” says educator Ellen de Lima Souza; Afro-Brazilian students face racism on the part of classmates as well as teachers
Note from BW of Brazil: Unraveling the truth about race relations in Brazil has been an ongoing process of dismantling the idea that the country […]
Small number of blacks on TV leads to racism in childhood, experts say
Note from BW of Brazil: The day to day experiences of living in a country in which racism and white supremacy are prominent factors can […]
How Brazil still can’t deal with racism: Little black girl tormented by racist classmates forced to apologize to her aggressors
Note from BW of Brazil: Absolutely absurd this story! More than a decade ago, researcher Eliane Cavalleiro released her groundbreaking work on how racism is […]
Filmmaker Eliciana Nascimento’s film project “On the Day Matthew Was Born”; a rare Afro-Brazilian story
Note from BW of Brazil: The mission here at BW of Brazil has always been to give more exposure to the millions of invisible black […]
Revisiting the black Brazilian middle class of 1999
With recent reports about the surge of Brazil’s black middle class and its buying power in the past decade, we thought it would be interesting […]
