Black pride! 4-year old blows up internet striking back against prejudice – “It’s not a wig; I’m black!”
Note from BW of Brazil: This is such a cool story and the kind that we love to share on this blog. As recent as […]
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Representation matters: A project conceived by Rio-based sociologist and bookseller Luciana Bento lists one hundred books featuring black girls
Note from BW of Brazil: The title says it all: Representation matters! It’s one of the major topics of this blog and its great seeing […]
From the first heartbreak to a nonexistent love life: How my loneliness taught me self-love
“I found the greatest love of all inside of me” – Michael Masser and Linda Creed Note from BW of Brazil: The pain of the […]
One state’s ad for World Breastfeeding Week harks back to Brazil’s slavery era
Note from BW of Brazil: In yesterday’s post, we mentioned how, because of the legacy of slavery, “something as simple as changing the skin color […]
Dear white people: wearing an anti-racism t-shirt won’t change the system of white supremacy – TV host seems to have forgotten the years of whiteness on her show
Note from BW of Brazil:This always amazes me. I won’t attempt to point out all reactions and types of white people in terms of the […]
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, […]
The continued masculization of black women and the media’s effeminization of black men: The view from Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: In reality, the origins of today’s post started back in the year 2000 when I saw the sister singing duo Pepê […]
Rallies in Rio, São Paulo and Brasília DF honor the memory Cláudia Ferreira, a black woman that was shot and dragged to her death
Note from BW of Brazil: As we have seen far too many times to count, the country of the World Cup continues to be a country […]
‘Ethnic Consumption’ heats up business among black entrepreneurs
Note from BW of Brazil: In the past few decades, a rise in black consciousness throughout Brazil has led to a number of black-oriented products […]
Actor’s comments perpetuates the sexual/violent image of the “negão”: the big black man
BW of Brazil: In Brazil, as in any other country, myths and stereotypes hold a certain sway in the imagination of the society. In a […]
After much promise and hype of 90% black cast, Subúrbia TV series descends into familiar clichés and stereotypes about black Brazilians
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 […]
Angela Davis declares support of the black Brazilian women’s march; rally seeks to bring together at least 100,000 women
Valdecir Nascimento of the Odara Institute of Black Women with Angela Davis Rally seeks to bring together at least 100,000 black women The executive coordinator […]
How Brazilian ideologies of racial stereotypes apply to Viola Davis and the Oscars
The Oscars and Viola Davis in “The Help” So once again, Oscar time is upon us, and as usual, the media is clamoring and hyping […]
