Bafo Afro: Teacher in Southern Brazil creates card game to teach her students about history’s black heroes and heroines
Note from BW of Brazil: When I think back on my years in the American education system, I can testify to the fact that there […]
Education
For black mother activists, developing blackness in children is a matter of survival
Note from BW of Brazil: The title of this article is true for a number of reasons. In many ways, Brazil is a very anti-black […]
“The black population is the most affected by the cuts in education,” says expert
Note from BW of Brazil: Last week, Brazilians across the country took to the streets in protest to the cuts to education implemented by the […]
Black women of the state of Minas Gerais discuss necessity of black population building coping mechanisms and resistance for collective survival
Note from BW of Brazil: When people sometimes ask me what inspired me to call this blog Black Women of Brazil, I thought of the […]
The historical construction of racism in Brazil: exclusion of blacks from access to land, low investment in education are factors in current racial inequalities
Note from BW of Brazil: I’m quite sure that even as this blog will be completing seven years of exposing the racial situation in Brazil, […]
“It’s the way they look at and talk to us; color has already been placed as a barrier”: Country reacts to the economic crisis without deterring racial prejudice
Note from BW of Brazil: I know that most people would rather just blow this at paranoia, or at worst, whining, people who are victims […]
“Ascension of blacks is very different from non-blacks in a company”: Whites the majority in elite jobs, blacks occupy vacancies that require little qualification
Note from BW of Brazil: The job in Brazil is often a tough cookie to crack, especially in the most expensive, most competitive city in […]
“The worst moment of school was when they talked about slavery. I felt humiliated”: The embarrassment of black children in classes about slavery and abolition
If you start your history with slavery then everything else will look like progress ~ John Henrik Clarke Note from BW of Brazil: Reading this story […]
Should we celebrate this date? May 13th: 13 decades past the end of slavery and the black population still has no rights guaranteed
Note from BW of Brazil: Can you think of anything that would be worth celebrating or remembering on May 13th? This year, it fell on […]
Photo of black college students wearing graduation gowns goes viral; image shows that even after nearly two decades of quotas, graduations remain mostly white
Note from BW of Brazil: Images such as these featured here today are reasons for why the issue of quotas and affirmative action policies have been […]
15-year old black teen goes back to school after watching ‘Black Panther’; after dropping out, young man had been surviving shining shoes in a Rio train station
Note from BW of Brazil: The Marvel film Black Panther has become a worldwide phenomenon, grossing over a US$1 billion just weeks after its release. And […]
At 26 years, 2 months and 26 days, Guilherme Lopes, from the state of Piaui, has thesis approved, becomes Brazil’s youngest doctor in the area of biotechnology
Note from BW of Brazil: Gotta love stories like this! And this young man’s success is all about one thing: Opportunity! This is one of […]
The representation of black people in school textbooks and the kinds of stereotypes taught to the readers of these works
Note from BW of Brazil: For some time I have been of the opinion that the situation of black people on a global level cannot […]
Black students learn less when we don’t believe in their potential – How some schools are improving grades by raising self-esteem of black children and teens
Note from BW of Brazil: Understanding the Brazilian education system is a key element to understanding how structural racism continuously undermines the black population. Of […]