The pain of racism and black identity as resistance: one black woman’s vow to fight
Note from BW of Brazil: Racism is a frequent topic on this blog for a number of reasons. 1) The image of Brazil for millions […]
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The prison and its walls: When black people continuously reproduce the acceptance of internalized European aesthetics
Note from BW of Brazil: The BW of Brazil blog tackles a lot of issues that affect the Afro-Brazilian community on a regular basis and […]
“To stop being a racist, my love, is not to fuck a mulata”: Considerations on racist compliments
Note from BW of Brazil: This latest post touches on many of the topics that have been previously discussed here at BW of Brazil. Brazilian-styled […]
Vera Lúcia Couto dos Santos: First black woman to win a major Brazilian beauty contest and represent the country in an international beauty pageant
There was an excitement in the air during the first semester of 1964, in the then newly created state of Guanabara. Where, for the first […]
Racism in the retail store window displays
by Ana Rita Dutra Sometimes when I walk through a few corridors of shops in the malls of Porto Alegre, I’m don’t feel Brazilian. In […]
Racism: because of late rent payment, building owner calls tourism employee "little black monkey" that "belongs in the trash"
Claudiane Malachi Nogueira The publishing assistant Claudiane Malachi Nogueira, 24, an employee of SINDETUR/MA (Sindicato do Turismo do Estado do Maranhão or Union of Tourism […]
Accused of racism, man affiliated with White Power group in São Paulo was married to a black woman and has mixed children
Brazilians accused of distributing racist pamphlets In recent campaign news for the American presidency, a sudden topic of the debate has surfaced concerning Paul Ryan, […]
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 […]
