Tag: black

The Typical Brazilian Homeless Is a Young Black Man with a Job

Male, between the ages of 25 and 44, black, literate, with a paying job.  ...

What Brazil Can Learn from the US on Race and Education

Since 1996 I have had the pleasure of visiting Brazil many times. On each ...

Playing the Race Game in Brazil’s Shopping Malls

Sociology teaches us that spaces are not neutral; just as race or color are ...

Swiss National Taken to Jail in Brazil for Calling Airport Agent a Monkey

Brazilian authorities arrested a Swiss citizen in Rio's international airport Antônio Carlos Jobim, charging ...

Brazilian TV celebrity Xuxa

Blacks Learn in Brazil They Won’t Be Human Until They Become White

My own research on racial exclusion in Brazil has given me ample reason to ...

Brazilian crowd in Salvador, Bahia

Brazil’s False Image of Racial Harmony Has Accomplice: the Black Population

In retrospect, I often ponder the following questions: Do people really not see the ...

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 ...

Mulata Azul (Blue Mulatto Lady) by Di Cavalcanti painted in the 1940s

Brazil’s Own One Drop Rule

Since I first began my travels to Brazil in September of 2000, my views ...

3% Fewer Brazilian Women Call Themselves Black

White women form the majority of female heads of households in Brazil. This finding ...

African Diaspora Finds in Brazil That Education Is the Way

The 3rd Conference of the Association for the Study of World African Diaspora (ASWAD), ...