Note from BBT: It always blows me away when I hear people make these types of comments. You can read the comment to which I refer […]
Note from BW of Brazil: Oh well, here we go again. Over the years I’ve covered quite a few of these beauty contests that take […]
Note from BW of Brazil: As in past events, the objective of holding black beauty events is to shine the light on black women whose […]
Note from BW of Brazil: Why does this story seem so familiar? Hmmm, let’s see…Now I remember! This exact same contest was the subject of […]
Note from BW of Brazil: The question and discussion of race, racism and black identity has been at the center of the struggle of Brazil’s […]
Note from BW of Brazil: Two beauty contests, two different states, and two different histories serve as good examples of Brazil’s historical racial ideology. In […]
There was an excitement in the air during the first semester of 1964, in the then newly created state of Guanabara. Where, for the first […]
Juliana, Paloma and Juliene, contest winners in 2011 The event is the only in the state to appreciate black culture. The 4th edition will be […]
Apelonice Lima in Miss Rio Grande do Sul contest of 1977 In a previous article featuring the only black woman to ever win the Miss Brasil contest […]
Silvia Novais, 25, is a winner: she was elected Miss Campinas and then Miss São Paulo of 2009 and is the current Miss Italia […]
Note from BBT: If one wants to know how it is that racist attitudes are thoroughly engrained in Brazilian society, you need look no further […]
Note from BBT: Ok, so we know that Brazil has long been and continues to be a very exclusionary country in terms of race and what […]
Note from BBT: It’s been a while since I’ve discussed the history of black social clubs in Brazil (see here, here and here), but it’s […]
Note from BBT: Well, well, so here we go again with Brazil’s obsession with presenting a ‘’we are the world’’ image on the racial question […]
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