Open Letter to Neymar about becoming black
Open Letter to Neymar about becoming black Note from BBT: Open Letter to Neymar about becoming black: With the recent controversy surrounding futebol star Neymar […]
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Before Neymar, Joel Camargo was the French PSG futebol team’s first Brazilian; a good player, but after speaking out on racism, he died poor, sick and forgotten
Note from BW of Brazil: Let me start this article off by stating that I am not a big sports enthusiast. This is not to […]
“I have money so I’ll get away with it”! 70-year old lawyer pulls a black woman’s hair, slaps & calls her ‘monkey’; after paying bail, walks out of jail
Note from BW of Brazil: In previous articles posted on this blog, I’ve described racism in Brazil as the ‘perfect crime’. I define it as […]
Ferguson and NY are in Brazil! Inspired by protests in the US, thousands take to the streets in São Paulo to protest police violence against Afro-Brazilian youth
Note from BW of Brazil: This has been a topic of discussion for many weeks in meetings and social forums in activists circles. In the […]
Comments about soccer star’s new white girlfriend show that Brazilians also see a problem
Note from BW of Brazil:Last year, the BW of Brazil blog posted a series of articles on the topic of interracial relationships, specifically those involving […]
The racist face of Brazil’s miscegenation
Note from BW of Brazil: The question of racial identity and classification are topics dealt with frequently on this blog. Brazil’s history and reputation has […]
Neymar’s blond ambition and the question of racism, identity and marketability of black public figures
Three weeks ago, Brazil’s latest soccer sensation was at the center of another controversy in regards to the question of race. Santos soccer club/Brazilian national […]
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 […]
Blond ambition: the Brazilian Media’s Manufacturing of the white woman as standard of beauty and the place of black women
Top row: Sabrina Sato, Luciana Gimenez, Angélica, Eliana Bottom row: Renata Fan, Amanda Françoso, Patrícia Poeta “In a society aesthetically governed by a white paradigm…the […]
