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 […]
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When will Brazil address racism in its schools? Mother re-enforces daughter’s self-esteem after other child said her hair was ugly because it “stands up”
Note from BW of Brazil: Well, we’ve see this time and time again: racism in Brazilian schools. It’s all of a part of life in […]
School is accused of racism after communicating that it requests students with ‘straight hair’ for a presentation
Note from BW of Brazil: Racism in Brazil just goes on and on and on…Need another example? As if we haven’t presented enough over the […]
The black man who became the first case of racism in the courts in Brazil – In 1950s Rio, Fernando Dias was expelled from an elite school where white parents didn’t like seeing their children playing with a black boy
Note from BW of Brazil: When one keeps digging into Brazil’s past, little gems of its blatantly racist past (and which continues today) always seem […]
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 […]
Overcoming racism, poverty and low self-esteem, former cleaning woman Luana Tolentino becomes a teacher and now positively affects the lives of students with her unique teaching style
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s always great to read stories of people finding ways to overcome adversity, excel in life and do exactly what […]
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 […]
“The Brazilian school system is fundamental in the reproduction of racism.”
Executive-Director of the Fundo Baobá para Equidade Racial (Baobá Fund for Racial Equality) analyzes 10 years of Federal Law 10.639/2003, that mandates the study […]
Waldete Tristão Teaches Children About African Gods
Waldete Tristão Teaches Children About African Gods Note from BW of Brazil: Reading the piece below actually took me back to my elementary school years […]
“You won’t be able to study in this school anymore because it does not match your color; your family is black and you have to live apart from us”; 10-year old black girl told after “Brazilian Trump” is elected, she will need to find a new school
“You won’t be able to study in this school anymore because it does not match your color; your family is black and you have to […]
Teacher requests that mother tie down, braid or straighten child’s hair so that classmates accept her; isolated by other children, girl usually plays alone
Teacher requests that mother tie down, braid or straighten child’s hair so that classmates accept her; isolated by other children, girl usually plays alone By […]
“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 […]
Mother denounces school textbook images as racist; in photo, black character is associated with cleaning services job, a long-held stereotype
Note from BW of Brazil: How are racist ideologies maintained and continuously widely divulged in an enormous country with a population of more than 200 […]
12-year old adopted black girl is target of racist bullying at three different schools in the city of Belo Horizonte
Note from BW of Brazil: Nothing really outside of the norm in today’s story. A black girl in a vastly white environment who is the […]
