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 […]
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With 99% black cast, new Brazilian comedy series ‘Casa da Vó’ (Grandma’s House), being compared to ‘Everybody Hates Chris’
Note from BBT: With demands for representation getting louder and louder and Brazilian media unwilling to put any resources behind productions created, produced and starring […]
New comedy “Casa da Vó” (Grandma’s House) opens Wolo TV streaming service, the first focused on the black population
Note from BBT: Feliz Ano Novo to everyone reading this! This first post of 2021 is actually a report from the last week of 2020, […]
Actress/model Carolinne Oliveira, releases book “Preta Patrícia” (Black Brazilian Princess)
Note from BBT: First off, let me acknowledge that I had never even heard of Carolinne Oliveira before I learned of her recent book release. […]
Favela Barber: Afro-Brazilians Adapting Own Aesthetics of Beauty
Favela Barber: Afro-Brazilians Adapting Own Aesthetics of Beauty Note from BW of Brazil: Having been studying the Afro-Brazilian community for two decades, one thing that […]
Why do Afro-Brazilians identify so much with the series ‘Dear White People’? Perhaps because they are dealing with the very same issues presented in the film!
Note from BW of Brazil: When I first got into studying racial politics in Brazil, I constantly read that Brazil was ‘different’. Race relations in […]
The discarding of identity in Brazil’s media: Where being black and invisible is the rule rather than the exception
Note from BW of Brazil: I must admit, I stopped watching TV regularly several years ago. The media vehicle simply stopped being important to me. […]
Media for the Diaspora: International black TV images fill the void left by lack of black representation in Brazilian media
Note from BW of Brazil: Two years ago we presented a post about racism in Latin American children’s TV programs and in that post, we also […]
Popular African-American actress Tichina Arnold of "Martin" and "Everybody Hates Chris" fame is coming to Brazil!
Actress Tichina Arnold Today, in the midst of all of the craziness of Carnaval, we received conformation that another famous African-American public figure will be […]
Racism in Latin American children’s programs
On Brazilian television, it’s very common to see television shows and movies made outside of the country being shown on TV stations. In many of […]
