Sueli Carneiro, director of the Geledés Institute for Black Women
Sueli Carneiro is the founder of Geledés, a black women’s organization which intertwines concerns of race and gender, and addresses the particular problems confronted by […]
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Sueli Carneiro, director of the Geledés Institute for Black Women
Sueli Carneiro is the founder of Geledés, a black women’s organization which intertwines concerns of race and gender, and addresses the particular problems confronted by […]
The Brazilian mulata: black woman or something entirely different?
Soccer star Vagner Love surrounded by five mulatas Last week I had a discussion about Brazil with an African-American graphic designer. He was putting […]
Feminist Vanda Menezes and the echoes of black resistance: "My feminism is black"
Echoes of black resistance in Serra da Barriga, in Alagoas (northeastern Brazil), land of Zumbi of Palmares*, run through the veins of Vanda Menezes, black militant […]
Feminist Vanda Menezes and the echoes of black resistance: "My feminism is black"
Echoes of black resistance in Serra da Barriga, in Alagoas (northeastern Brazil), land of Zumbi of Palmares*, run through the veins of Vanda Menezes, black militant […]
Murder of an Angolan woman and the roots of anti-black, anti-African ideologies in Brazil
Angolan woman Zumira de Souza Borges Cardoso was murdered in São Paulo In yet another example of Brazil’s centuries long anti-black, anti-African ideology, an Angolan university student […]
In unanimous decision, Brazilian Supreme Court rules Affirmative Action policies are constitutional
The issue of affirmative action and quotas to increase access of Afro-Brazilians to Brazil’s finest universities has been a hotly debated topic in Brazil for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Spike Lee will make a documentary about Brazil
Spike Lee will make a documentary about Brazil According to sources in Brazil, filmmaker Spike Lee is planning to record a new documentary about the […]
Spike Lee will make a documentary about Brazil
Spike Lee will make a documentary about Brazil According to sources in Brazil, filmmaker Spike Lee is planning to record a new documentary about the […]
Dionária da Silva Santos: Black affirmation and the humanization of all of society
Dionária da Silva Santos Educator and militant of the Movimento Negro in Jequié, Bahia. Brazil was the last country to formally abolish slavery and today it has […]
Dionária da Silva Santos: Black affirmation and the humanization of all of society
Dionária da Silva Santos Educator and militant of the Movimento Negro in Jequié, Bahia. Brazil was the last country to formally abolish slavery and today it has […]
Carnaval in Salvador, Bahia: Brazil’s own spin on apartheid
Carnaval of the Apartheid As Carnaval begins to wind down in Brazil, one particular issue won’t be dying down any time soon: racism. The racism […]
