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 […]
On the “Night of the Black Beauty”, Bahia’s historic black consciousness group selects “Ebony Goddess”: Check out the candidates and winner
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s about that time again! Every year, we can always tell when Carnaval season is right around the corner. One […]
Brasília-based photographer celebrates the power and beauty of Afro-Brazilian women in the photo layout ‘Superafro: The Power of the Black Woman’
Note from BW of Brazil: Yet another example of “do-it-yourself” representation. These are the faces that we need to see more of and as about […]
Persecuted as the only black woman in a beauty pageant, Carolina Pinheiro dos Passos says: “I represent blacks!”
Note from BW of Brazil: One can gain quite a bit of insight into how race plays out in many minds by simply analyzing something […]
“An open letter to my hair straightening friends”: On the wonderful experience of accepting our real beauty
Note from BW of Brazil: Anyone who has followed this blog for any amount of time knows that the issue of black hair is one […]
Free photographic project celebrates diversity and the uniqueness of black beauty
Note from BW of Brazil: Great to see here! Like we saw in a similar photo shoot posted here back in January, if black people […]
Beautiful and Black – See the work of the Bahian photographer that values black beauty
Note from BW of Brazil: Welcome to 2015! Hoped you’ve recovered from the party and you brought in the new year safely! After a great […]
Apartheid continues in Bahia: In a 76% black state, 75% of beauty contestants are white; meanwhile agency requests only “white skinned” candidates for job vacancy
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 […]
Rio-based group to present event celebrating black beauty and hair during the International Day of the Black Woman
Note from BW of Brazil: Hard to believe that one year has passed, but Friday we recognize women of African descent on the International Afro-Latin American […]
My black is beautiful: meet the women bloggers who are filling the void in Brazil’s Eurocentric beauty market
Note from BW of Brazil: The beauty and appreciation of blackness has long been a theme that we promote here at BW of Brazil and […]
Brazilian women don’t identify with standard of beauty shown on TV, says survey
Note from BW of Brazil: For the past year and half or so this blog has consistently given examples of Brazilian media’s refusal to more […]
One of the first black women to become a successful model in Brazil’s fashion industry, Veluma discusses her career
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 […]
Dancer/choreographer Ismael Ivo: The ebony god that Brazil didn’t know and the world revered dies from complications of Covid-19
Note from BBT: Over the course of my work sharing the experience, history, achievements and struggles of black Brazilians, one of my regrets is that, […]
