Artificially darkened skin: Man fired from Job for fraud | Black Brazil
Artificially darkened skin: Man fired from Job for fraud | Black Brazil Note: You see, it’s stories like this that making covering stories from Brazil from […]
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Columnist tells how she grew up in a “White world” | Black Brazil
Columnist tells how she grew up in a “White world” | Black Brazil Note from BW of Brazil: A little over a week ago I […]
In Brazil is being black a choice? Two women illustrate the Situation
In Brazil is being black a choice? Two women illustrate the Situation Note from BW of Brazil: This type of article really gets to the […]
The Population of blacks increases by 32% In the past six years
The Population of blacks increases by 32% In the past six years Note from BW of Brazil: This report is most definitely a reason for […]
Does former futebol superstar Ronaldo still see himself as a white man?
Does former futebol superstar Ronaldo still see himself as a white man? Note from BW of Brazil: Today’s story takes me down memory lane for […]
“Black? Who me?! It took me over 30 years to learn to be black”: A journalist explains the process that led her to becoming a black woman
Note from BW of Brazil: Brazil has a very sophisticated form of racism. In it, you will find both the subtle and difficult to detect forms […]
Students disapproved by a university quota commission protest; according to commission of racial self-declaration, students weren’t black or brown enough
Note from BW of Brazil: This whole thing is beyond intriguing. For years, Brazil’s system of quotas has provoked all sorts of controversial reactions and […]
Court declares one must “look like an African descendant in the eyes of the average man” to qualify for affirmative action, rejecting another case of a white student “passing” for black
Court declares one must “look like an African descendant in the eyes of the average man” to qualify for affirmative action, rejecting another case of […]
“I found out I was black at age 67”: A chronicle about identity
Note from BW of Brazil: When I first got into the issues of race, racism and racial identity in Brazil, I came across wild estimations […]
How loving a black woman helped me to discover more about my experience as a black man and the difficulties of being black in Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: I really dug this piece. The reason being is that, even with so many people of African descent coming […]
Reflections of a whitened blackness: The difficulties of defining oneself when seen as being ‘too white to be black’ but ‘too black to be white’
Note from BW of Brazil: The text presented below perfectly demonstrate the sometimes difficult task of racial classification in Brazil. It is a topic that […]
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 […]
Why does Anitta’s “Vai Malandra” bother black people so much? Singer’s new video once again stirs up questions of racial identity and cultural appropriation
Note from BW of Brazil: So to tell you the truth, the idea of writing something about singer Anitta’s new video hadn’t even occurred to […]
Is Meghan Markle black? Depends. Do you live in the US or Brazil? (although the two are more similar than one may think): Daniela Gomes breaks it down
Note from BW of Brazil: Ya know, I never intended on touching on this topic of the black American girl who was going to become […]
