“The black woman is not a Carnival costume” – Note to Brazil: Blackface is still not funny!
Note from BW of Brazil: Needless to say, this beyond annoying! Even more annoying are the tired attempts of defending this behavior! It’s Carnaval time […]
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Does love have a standard? Does love have color? Damn straight! And in Brazil, that color is NOT black! Black women speak out…
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s a long, ongoing debate that we’ve touched upon on this blog on numerous occasions. It never fails. Black man. […]
Latest example of racism in futebol: Opposing team’s fan calls black goalie a monkey; caught on camera, woman loses her job
Note from BW of Brazil: I can hear the denial loud and clear: “We Brazilians aren’t racists.” This was the title of a book after […]
The ungrateful quota beneficiaries: When affirmative action in Brazil only benefited white immigrants
Note from BW of Brazil: In practice throughout Brazil for a little more than a decade, the system of affirmative action has given hundreds […]
Events of past few weeks reveal a fact most Brazilians don’t want to deal with: “We are all racists”
Note from BW of Brazil: The past few weeks have spoken volumes about how racism is maintained in Brazil all the while presenting a […]
“If I don’t use deodorant, I’ll smell like a neguinha (black girl)”, says participant on reality show
Note from BW of Brazil: Let me be honest here. I don’t care for much Brazilian television. Most of it comes across as mindless entertainment […]
When I took my blackness “out of the closet”: denial, recognition and pride
Note from BW of Brazil: The question of race and racial identity in Brazil has been historically explained and promoted as the extreme opposite of […]
Minister of Policies to Promote Racial Equality says it’s necessary to change the image of black women in the media
Note from BW of Brazil: Yesterday there was another in an ongoing series of discussions and seminars in regards to the necessity of creating policies […]
Brazil loves immigrants, but only if they’re the right color
Note from BBT: So, today’s topic is one that I’ve been wanting cover for years, but just never got around to it. I mean, threre’s […]
89 year old black woman subjected to slavery in the city of Santos for 50 years
Note from BBT: From the time I started studying issues of race in Brazil, I became aware of the lengths that citizens would go to […]
Meet WD, the singer with the soaring voice who became a favorite after singing ‘Eu Sou’, his song about resistance, race and prejudice on ‘The Voice Brasil’
Note from BBT: When I became aware of the subject of today’s post, I thought that it was very fitting that he would be featured […]
When white Brazilian women discover that their whiteness doesn’t mobilize privileges in Europe
Note from BBT: I have been fascinated with the concept of racial classification and identity going all the back to my childhood. Thinking back to […]
Raça Brasil, Brazil’s longest-running magazine targeting the Afro-Brazilian population, celebrates 25 years
Note from BBT: Reaching twenty-five years is always an accomplishment, whether we’re talking about a marriage, some record-breaking sports feat or a business. Twenty-five years […]
In Rio de Janeiro, a group formed by five black women doctors opens their own clinic
Note from BBT: Often times when I come across headlines online that show black men or black women as individuals or as a group accomplishing […]
