Can black women exist within a feminist movement dominated by white women?
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s a common issue. Many a movement or organization that have specific ideals, goals and demands attempt to build coalitions […]
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s a common issue. Many a movement or organization that have specific ideals, goals and demands attempt to build coalitions […]
BW of Brazil: The question of race has long been a source of confusion in Brazil. On the one hand, the country has promoted itself […]
Note from BW of Brazil: Racial identity and classification are topics often discussed on the BW of Brazil blog. The article below taken from the […]
Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, or simply Chica da Silva or Xica da Silva (Serro, cerca 1732 – February 15, 1796), was a slave, later […]
Jéssica Ellen, who plays Rita on the TV show Malhação, was a cleaning woman and says that she’s already been confused for Brazil’s most successful black […]
The Império da Tijuca Samba school’s Carnaval parade that paid homage to black women was the 2013 Series A champion in Rio de Janeiro! (See short […]
Aparecida Petrowki (left) and Camila Pitanga Taís Araújo (left) and Maria Ceiça By Rosa Estrada I have just under three decades of existence, and, because […]
Taiguara Nazareth, 35, the actor who starred in the 2001 miniseries Presença de Anita spoke with the column “Retratos da Vida”, from the newspaper Extra and talked about his […]
Back in September when I first read the news that Brazil’s biggest TV network, Globo, was producing a new TV series that featured a 90% Afro-Brazilian […]
The actress shows that she learned to make acarajé (fried bean fritters) (1) to play the confectioner Berenice in her latest novella, Lado a Lado […]
Filhas do Vento – The challenges and triumph Note: This is the third and final part of this three part series; see part 1 and part 2 Directing […]
Filhas do Vento DVD cover For today’s post and those of the next few days, I wanted to discuss Filhas do Vento, a 2004 film directed […]
Camila Pitanga and Lázaro Ramos, protagonists of Lado a Lado “A carne mais barata do mercado é a carne negra.” (“The cheapest meat in the market […]
Glória Maria was one of the first profiles ever posted on this blog. On November 19 of 2011, this was the short bio we posted about her: […]
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