Tag: blacks
So Rich Brazil, So Many Poor Brazilians!
A few days ago, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book Lula of Brazil: The ...
We Are All Brazilians, All Mixed, and Racists All the Same
From the end of the 1930s till his death in 1995, the anthropologist Ashley ...
Contrary to Myth, Brazil Is Ashamed of Being Mestizo
In my last essay I cited João Vargas’s term "the hyperconsciousness of race" to ...
Through Globo TV Lenses Brazil Is a White Dreamland
For approximately a year now I have been a subscriber to Rede Globo Internacional ...
It’s All a Matter of Class Not Color, Say Brazilians. Just Another Myth!
Continuing with the theme of "those racists Americans", most people are familiar with the ...
Slavery Is Past. It’s Time Brazil and Africa Unite in Mutual Understanding
"Without Angola, there is no Brazil," said the polemical Friar Antonio Vieira at the ...
How Music Has Brought Blacks Back to the Brazilian Melting Cauldron
Since the second half of the 20th century, global or ‘World’ music has become ...
For Brazilian Blacks Life Has Always Been a State of Siege
In his Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Brésil, Jean-Baptiste Debret painted an elderly blind ...
Inequality Is As Brazilian As the Weather and the Beaches
On Sunday, February 5, the Brazilian TV program Fantástico presented three shocking reports. One ...
Quotas Are the Brazilian Way to Keep Things as They’ve Always Been
Recently a young black man asked me if I saw a relationship between race ...