Popular Black Hairstylist Celebrate The Whitening of his Family
From black skin to blue eyes: Why did the social network of a popular black hairstylist celebrate the whitening of his family on Black Consciousness […]
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White is right? General Mourão, an Indian and candidate for Vice President of Brazil, comments on how handsome his grandson is and that he is an example of the “whitening of the race”
White is right? General Mourão, an Indian and candidate for Vice President of Brazil, comments on how handsome his grandson is and that he is […]
Causes and consequences of miscegenation: Racial mixture as a weapon of domination and extinction of the oppressed group
Note from BW of Brazil: Over the years of travelling and living in Brazil, I am often amazed at how the process of embranquecimento, or […]
Mestiçagem (racial mixture), harmony and whitening: who is afraid of the black man?
Note from BW of Brazil: It is a question that is becoming increasingly important as we analyze the situation of black people in Brazil. […]
‘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 […]
Analyzing “palmitagem”: the racist policy of whitening the black population
Note from BW of Brazil: It is an ongoing debate/dialogue/argument among black Brazilians. As more and more people become conscious of the depths of indoctrination […]
The theory of ’embranquecimento’- Brazil’s agenda to whiten its black population had an accomplice: black leaders
Note from BW of Brazil: In today’s report, we seek to further a conversation that has been growing within Afro-Brazilian oriented social networks and activist […]
Rapper Emicida tells it like it is: “Brazil applauds miscegenation when it lightens (the skin), when it darkens, it condemns it”
Note from BW of Brazil: Wow! Last night was an example of what you might miss if you don’t stay tuned! Last night this writer […]
Neymar and Dani Alves: Brazil’s “blond bombers” and the ongoing whitening of blackness in Brazil
“White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value […]
‘’Yes, interracial love does exist, but some black people also use white people as a social passport, to feel more accepted’’, according to social influencer
Note from BBT: You know I have to go here every now and then, so when I haven’t talked about it in a while, you can […]
Black men and black women are loving each other: How Afrocentric relationships reverberate with processes of self-affirmation of black cultural identity
Note from BBT: When we speak of the question of black unity and why it is necessary, it appears to be a topic that’s pretty simple. […]
O amor preto cura? (Does black love heal?): Black couples discuss the question and what it means in an anti-black society
Note from BBT: It’s a question that more and more black Brazilians are asking themselves. O amor preto cura?, meaning, does black love heal? It’s […]
“Will the baby be born light?”: Like Meghan Markle, black Brazilian mothers have heard this question
Note from BBT: When I read the comments made by Meghan Markle a few days ago in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, all I could […]
The “father of Afro-Brazilian history”, intellectual Manuel Querino, a mix of WEB and Booker T., credited Africans with bringing civilization to Brazil
Note from BBT: I first became aware of the name Manuel Querino through the work of Kim Butler, professor of African Studies at Rutgers University. […]
