How my mother taught me racial consciousness
Note from BW of Brazil: Continuing with a very important theme here on the blog, we bring you another text on the question of racial […]
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Councilman arrested for insulting and assaulting neighbor; aggressor called victim a “shiftless black”
Note from BW of Brazil: Not much to say here; another day another case of a racial slur in the land of “racism doesn’t exist […]
Walmart Brasil ordered to pay US$10 million in collective moral damages due to discrimination and harassment
Note from BW of Brazil: The Wal-Mart supercenter chain has racked up a long history of racism, sexist practices and violations of employee rights as […]
Becoming a black woman: an identity in process
Note from BW of Brazil: If you have followed this blog for any amount of time you’ve probably noticed that the question of identity is […]
In Brazil’s capital city region, a 12 year-old girl is beaten up by four assailants simply for being black
Márcia Pereira do Nascimento consoles her daugther after she was viciously assaulted Well, it’s been a banner week in Brazil! On the 17th there […]
Mother puts school on blast and seeks the police after 8 year old son suffers racist verbal assault
Classmate said he would never get a girlfriend because he is “preto, sujo, feio e fedido (black, dirty, ugly and stinking)”; the boy had been […]
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 […]
Song about black women’s hair deemed racist; Sony Music ordered to pay $1.2 million (reais) in damages
Following up on a report from yesterday, a second popular Brazilian song within the period of about a week was deemed racist leading to a settlement […]
