Alexandre Pires’ "Kong" and the Bamboozled image of blackness
Amazing! Absolutely amazing! I admit that when I first saw this video a few weeks ago, a lot of things came to mind but I […]
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Alexandre Pires’ "Kong" and the Bamboozled image of blackness
Amazing! Absolutely amazing! I admit that when I first saw this video a few weeks ago, a lot of things came to mind but I […]
Black Bandits: How Brazil’s media continues to perpetuate the racist image of black criminals
Black Bandits: How Brazil’s media continues to perpetuate the racist image of black criminals By Marques Travae In past reports I have referenced the works […]
Open Letter to Neymar about becoming black
Open Letter to Neymar about becoming black Note from BBT: Open Letter to Neymar about becoming black: With the recent controversy surrounding futebol star Neymar […]
When is blackface not actually blackface? Journalist defends her photo exhibit that digitally blackened the faces of numerous prominent white people
Note from BW of Brazil: HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of Black Women of Brazil’s readers and welcome to 2018! For my first post of […]
When they can’t beat you, they can always resort to the sell-out negro: São Paulo elects black city councilor who is as against black cause as any white conservative
“When white folks can’t defeat you they’ll always find some Negro—some boot-licking, butt-licking, buck-dancing, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized nigger—that they can trot […]
Why no black Brazilian actor will ever boycott the nation’s top TV network Rede Globo
Note from BW of Brazil: The recent controversy over the lack of nominations of black actors and actresses for the Oscar Award ceremony has also been […]
Neymar and racism: a tragedy in four acts
Note from BW of Brazil: OK so there’s no way to avoid the obvious: The World Cup is HERE!! Cities are crazy, traffic, fireworks blowing […]
“We are not all monkeys!”: Bananas, publicity and a nation’s peculiar way of dealing with racism
Note from BW of Brazil: By now many people around the world are familiar with the problem of racism in European soccer stadiums. For the […]
Social consciousness and the rich black athlete – conflicting entities? The case of Pelé
The legendary talents of the great Pelé have rightly earned him the nickname “O Rei”, meaning “The King” and cemented his place in sports history […]
Racionais MCs, “Brazil’s Public Enemy”, participate in director Spike Lee’s upcoming documentary about Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: Gotta give props to Spike Lee. When I first heard that he was planning to record a documentary about Brazil’s […]
When rappers crossover: new video by rapper MV Bill provokes accusations of sell-out, whitening and elitification of Brazilian Hip Hop
Note from BW of Brazil: What do BET (Black Entertainment Television), American rapper Ja Rule and Brazilian Hip Hop have to do with each other? […]
Popular novela contributes to Brazil’s invisibility and stereotyping of blacks: Yet another example of “bamboozling”?
So yet another popular Brazilian novela (soap opera) has come to a close as the final chapter of the Record TV (Rede Record) network’s Dona […]
Blackface, jokes and denial: How racism continues to thrive in Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: Two recent incidents that occurred within days of each other provide telling examples of how racism can be naturalized and […]
