Beauty and Magazine Covers in Brazil: The Overwhelming Dictatorship of Whiteness
Sometimes it amazes me when white people look at events or certain media that is aimed at and features specific segments of a population and […]
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Beauty and Magazine Covers in Brazil: The Overwhelming Dictatorship of Whiteness
Sometimes it amazes me when white people look at events or certain media that is aimed at and features specific segments of a population and […]
Top 10 richest singers of Brazil: how White artists are the most popular
“Top 10 richest singers of Brazil: Recent reports show how white artists are the most popular and best paid in Brazil’s music industry In a […]
The New Concept of Beauty: More Black Faces on Magazine Covers
The New Concept of Beauty: More Black Faces on Magazine Covers Note from BW of Brazil: What’s going on? It’s a shame that I even have […]
Colorism: a sad reality makes dark-skinned blacks less accepted while light-skinned blacks have “less difficulty” being able to blend into white environments
Note from BW of Brazil: After years of living in the United States in a large black community as well as having the opportunity to […]
‘In Brazil, no one is white’, says Anitta: Long accused of whitening her look, singer’s new look provokes comments of black cultural appropriation
Note from BW of Brazil: When I read about this story I knew that it would be necessary to discuss it on the blog as […]
What do Brazil’s ultra white magazine stands tell us about race? Will the real racist country please stand up?
BW of Brazil: We’ve heard the same tired arguments for decades. “Brazilians aren’t racists.” “Racist countries are the United States and South Africa.” “Brazil isn’t […]
“OMG!! He’s…..black?!?” The ‘disappointing’ discovery that a popular white blogger’s boyfriend isn’t the ‘Prince Charming’ they expected
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s so funny the watch how Brazilians continuously claim that in Brazil “we are all equal” or, “racism is a […]
“I am a woman. I’m from the periphery. But I still have an advantage: I’m white” – The recognition of white privilege and racism
Note from BW of Brazil: Sometimes one has to accept the idea that coincidences don’t exist. Sometimes things happen in the universe that demonstrate that […]
Surprise, surprise! Brazil’s top TV network presents the country as nearly all white in World Cup commercial
Note from BW of Brazil: For anyone who has followed the posts featured on this blog over the past few years, this article should […]
Is the sexuality of black women judged differently from that of white women? The case of the funk group Bonde das Maravilhas
Note from BW of Brazil: OK, so the debate over the Brazilian music style known as “Funk” has raged on for a minute now. As […]
Study finds that 99% of Brazilian diplomats and federal university professors are white
Note from BW of Brazil: In yet another stunning example of racial inequality in Brazil, a 2005 study found that 99% of Brazil’s diplomats and […]
The benefits of whiteness: blue-eyed white beggar becomes a sensation in a country where black beggars are routinely ignored
This story, like so many others we have posted here at BW of Brazil, is a very revealing portrayal of white privilege in Brazil, […]
Lucyana: What it means to be black – "many blacks grow up thinking that whites are synonymous with superiority"
Lucyana da Silva This commentary written by Lucyana da Silva from the city of Campos dos Goyatcazes in Rio de Janeiro state, is an example […]
