Sueli Carneiro, director of the Geledés Institute for Black Women
Sueli Carneiro is the founder of Geledés, a black women’s organization which intertwines concerns of race and gender, and addresses the particular problems confronted by […]
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Sueli Carneiro, director of the Geledés Institute for Black Women
Sueli Carneiro is the founder of Geledés, a black women’s organization which intertwines concerns of race and gender, and addresses the particular problems confronted by […]
April 30, 2013: 25 years of Geledés: the Black Women’s Institute – a leading organization in the fight against racism and giving visibility to black women of Brazil. Congratulations!
Note from BW of Brazil: Today, April 30th, in 1988 the black women’s organization Geledés began its very important work of giving voice to Brazil’s black […]
OUR TURN – Invisible on small screen, black Brazilians create their own ‘TV channels’
Note from BBT: As the title of the piece below says, it’s black Brazil’s turn to shine in the media. For years, this blog as […]
Black hair: The Problem Isn’t with Curly It’s with Nappy!
Note from BBT: People who have kept up with this blog for at least a year know that the issue of hair texture is a […]
Where are the Afro-Brazilians in history books? 17 black people that you never learned about in school
Note from BW of Brazil: Today’s article is short, right to the point and something that my research and experiences on/in Brazil demonstrate why such […]
Debate “Black women in resistance and mobilization for human rights” packs Cine Odeon theater in Rio for discussion on violence and the black population
Note from BW of Brazil: The disrespect and disregard for the lives of African descendants is an issue that affects us all, whether we are […]
Were 20 million Afro-Brazilian women sterilized? With recent controversy in Kenya, we re-visit the sterilization controversy of the late 1980s in Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: The focus of today’s post is of a controversial but of a very important nature that has made headlines around […]
Light-skinned blacks: How a Eurocentric Brazilian society undermines blackness
Note from BW of Brazil: The origin of today’s post is actually from June of 2004, although the subject matter was even before that date […]
100 years of Abdias do Nascimento: Brazil’s greatest modern day black leader
Note from BW of Brazil: Today marks a milestone that should be remembered in the worldwide struggle for black liberation. On this date in 1914, […]
Black Women and Power: We can too!
Photos: Left to right, top row and bottom row: Benedita da Silva, Federal Deputy and first black woman to serve as governor of the state […]
Why do black Brazilian men prefer blondes? Part 3 – “They are more beautiful, more seductive, more cultured", says one
Léo Moura of Flamengo, wife Camila This is part 3 of our series; see part 1 and part 2 “It is the blondes who prefer black men” With […]
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 […]
July 25th is the International Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Day: The day to celebrate the resistance to racism and sexism of black women in Latin American and the Caribbean
The International Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Day was established on July 25, 1992, in a meeting in the Dominican Republic, and will be celebrated […]
