The “arrastão”: the role of race, stereotypes and apartheid on Rio’s beaches
Note from BW of Brazil: Beaches such as Ipanema and Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro are known worldwide for their beauty, view, sun and over atmosphere. […]
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Rio public prosecutor condemns teacher for act of racism on beach; she called blacks & mulattoes a ‘sub-race’ that shouldn’t be on beach – says she isn’t racist
Note from BW of Brazil: This case is so very Brazilian. I say this based on so many past incidents of the sort. So that […]
“I can’t take publishing news of murdered children anymore”: 11-year-old black boy killed by police in Rio neighborhood; protest closes down main streets
Note from BW of Brazil: Sometimes, after something depressing happens again, again and again and again, there are simply no more words to really express […]
Brazilian-styled segregation strikes again! Military Police in Rio stops bus, rounds up group of black teenagers headed for Copacabana beach
Note from BW of Brazil: Well, the Military Police are at it again doing what they do best: harassing people and treating people as second-class […]
Middle-class vigilante group sought to “catch and kill”; thought to be responsible for tying black teen naked to a pole in Rio
Note from BW of Brazil: The story involving the young black male who stripped naked and tied to a pole by his neck provoked outrage […]
How Brazil treats its black people: Naked black male found pinned to a post by his neck in Rio
Note from BW of Brazil: And yet another example of how Brazil treats its black people. Last week, Huffington Post did a piece on the […]
Racism on Rio’s beaches: Residents don’t want poor blacks there “dirtying up the beaches”
Note from BW of Brazil: In the news lately have been reports of confusions on some of Rio de Janeiro’s world famous beaches. The controversy […]
Comedian Jacaré Banguela compares Will Smith’s son Jaden to a street peddler and generates backlash on social networks
Comedian Jacaré Banguela makes racist joke about actor Will Smith’s son Jaden and generates backlash on social networks From the series “I’m not surprised”, once […]
Popular YouTuber Júlio Cocielo loses corporate sponsors after racist tweet about French futebol player Kylian Mbappé; busted, he deletes 50 thousand tweets
Note from BW of Brazil: Nothing shocking here. I look at it this way. If a master chef made a great pot of spaghetti and […]
“Brazilian apartheid” rears its ugly head again: Military Police screen and harass black youth from entering an upper crust shopping mall
Note from BW of Brazil: OK Brazil, so what’s next? There’s racism on the beaches, racism on the job, racism in the hospitals, racism in […]
For Brazil’s Minister of Racial Equality, the figure of Mandela is used to try to disguise racism in Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: As the world continues to pay its respects to former South African President and human rights icon, Nelson Mandela, Luiza […]
Activists repudiate humiliation of black youth in shopping mall by Military Police; evidence shows nothing was stolen
“Why do I call myself a n*gga you ask me, because police always wanna harass me” – Niggaz 4 Life, NWA “60% of the youth […]
