Giovana Xavier: “Editorial market discovered that black women sell”
Giovana Xavier: “Editorial market discovered that black women sell” Note from BW of Brazil: I’ve written this numerous times in past posts. If you’re a […]
Books
Black Women authors at FLIP: One of Brazil’s top literary festivals
Black Women authors at FLIP: One of Brazil’s top literary festivals Note from BW of Brazil: Do I see some light at the end of […]
Faculdade Zumbi dos Palmares: Releases book ‘Black Box’ | Black Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: It sees that Brazil’s only majority black college, Faculdade Zumbi dos Palmares (UniPalmares) is making some moves. A few weeks […]
LASA 2019 International Congress: Francy Silva has been invited
LASA 2019 International Congress: Francy Silva has been invited Note from BW of Brazil: We all need some help from time to time and today I […]
Writer Cristiane Sobral: Lack of black representation in Brazilian literature
Writer Cristiane Sobral: Lack of black representation in Brazilian literature Note from BW of Brazil: More than the reports and studies that discuss the existence and […]
Human Rights Specialist creates Brazil’s first black and anti-racist club
Human Rights Specialist creates Brazil’s first black and anti-racist club Note from BW of Brazil: When I decided many years ago that I wanted to […]
Cadernos Negros (Black Notebooks): “We can talk about our affection”
Note from BW of Brazil: I’m not sure of exactly when I became aware of the collective of Afro-Brazilian writers known as Quilombhoje, the group […]
Literary Showcase in Salvador, Bahia excludes black artists
Literary Showcase in Salvador, Bahia excludes black artists Note from BW of Brazil: When you see exclusionary events such as this, you know that racism […]
Orixás for children: New book introduces children to the attributes of African deities and Afro-Brazilian culture in the struggle against religious intolerance
Note from BW of Brazil: The release of a recent children’s book about the African deities known as orixás, or orishas, is important for a […]
In ultra-Eurocentric Brazil, black parents seek representation in literature for their children
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s no secret that black children in Brazil have very few choices when it comes to having role models to […]
One black lawyer handcuffed in court, another shot at point blank range, both at the hands of government policing agents; Adilson Moreira explains why blacks get no respect, regardless of status
Note from BW of Brazil: What’s going on here? Two blacks lawyers were the targets of policing agent actions just a few days apart from […]
Classic book ‘The genocide of the black Brazilian’ by Abdias do Nascimento re-released: originally released in 1978, title was activist’s attempt to expose the myth of ‘racial democracy’ outside of Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: In a brief bio I published several weeks ago, I described how I happened to get into studies of the […]
Zumbi dos Palmares: An African warrior in Brazil – The legend of the nation’s greatest black leader continues to be a topic of debate and inspiration
Note from BW of Brazil: Sometimes there are topics, figures and subjects that are simply too monumental to approach in simply one post. Today’s topic […]
In the centennial of Carolina de Jesus, absence of black women in literature reveals a distorted way of representing society
Note from BW of Brazil: The world of literature is yet another area in which Afro-Brazilians, particularly Afro-Brazilian women are nearly invisible. If anyone were […]
