Tag: Mark Wells

Mestiço by Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari

Contrary to Myth, Brazil Is Ashamed of Being Mestizo

In my last essay I cited João Vargas’s term "the hyperconsciousness of race" to ...

A Brazilian Globo TV network soap opera

Through Globo TV Lenses Brazil Is a White Dreamland

For approximately a year now I have been a subscriber to Rede Globo Internacional ...

Blackness’s Fear and Stigma Make Brazil a 6% Black Country

I would now like to turn my attention to the ever popular argument concerning ...

Afro-Brazilian by Mário Freire

By Making the US a Racial Hell Brazil Can See Itself As Eden

Since late 1999, the people and culture of the Federal Republic of Brazil have ...