“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 […]
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On The Lack of Crowns: The difficulty of Recognizing Yourself as a black man
On The Lack of Crowns: The difficulty of Recognizing Yourself Note from BW of Brazil: I swear, I never get tired of this topic/debate. For […]
Black Racism: 21 people tell When They Realized They Were Black
Black Racism: 21 people tell When They Realized They Were Black Note from BW of Brazil: As long as I’ve been learning about what it […]
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 […]
When racism starts in the family: One woman’s memories of a racist
When racism starts in the family: One woman’s memories of a racist Note from BW of Brazil: We’ve all heard the theories on interracial unions […]
Brazilian Mulattos & Pardos are all of bad character | Secretary of Tourism
Note from BW of Brazil: How can anyone really be surprised by a commnet such as this one? Numerous studies dating back to the 1940s […]
“Palmitagem exists, I am an example”: Black man reflects on growing up in Rio & how the culture and racial hierarchy influences the adoration of white girls
Note from BW of Brazil: Before I present today’s text I would like to provide a little background of how it came to be. It […]
The veiled racism of advertising agencies
Note from BW of Brazil: Advertising in Brazil follows a similar standard that one finds in most other important areas: a preference for white skin. […]
Is Brazil the new home of blackface? What’s driving an apparent fascination with wearing this makeup?
Note from BW of Brazil: OK, seriously, what’s going here? This blog is perhaps the first to present this issue to an English-speaking audience about […]
Popular parenting magazine features a black baby on its cover; a rarity – But why are Afro-Brazilians only prominently featured when the topic is race?
Note from BW of Brazil: By now, our readers are quite familiar with the problem: representation, exclusion and invisibility. In Brazil’s media (television, film, print, […]
Brazilian all-star ‘Hulk’ the latest victim of racism in futebol stadium; Russian fans made monkey gestures at him
Note from BW of Brazil: So what else is new? Fan racism in a futebol stadium, this time in Russia. If this hasn’t happened to […]
The struggle for racial identity in a society that denies it is racist
Note from BW of Brazil: The question of racial identity in Brazil is not a simple subject. This question is made even more complex by […]
Becoming a black woman: an identity in process
Note from BW of Brazil: If you have followed this blog for any amount of time you’ve probably noticed that the question of identity is […]
“What Brazil really wants to be is blonde,” says researcher of racial inequality
Photo: Top, left to to right: Rafaella, sister of soccer star Neymar, actress Aparecida Petrowky, soccer star Neymar and singer Juliana Diniz. Bottom, left to right: […]
