Category: Brazil

  • Brazil is combating many kinds of inequality. But one of the world’s most diverse nations is still just beginning to talk about race

  • Q & A with Ana Carolina Vidal + her Afro-Futuristic project Rooted In Magazine 2015-07-08 Annina Chirade O Mestiço Revisited II, Ana Carolina Vidal São Paulo native, Ana Carolina Vidal, is a multi-racial Brazilian artist who explores the dynamics of her country through her art. Her work is largely focused on portraiture; each piece in…

  • As South Carolina deals with its Confederate flag, one town in Brazil flies it with pride The World Public Radio International 2015-06-22 Bradley Campbell, Producer Descendants of American Southerners wearing Confederate-era dresses and uniforms dance during a party to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War in Santa Barbara D’Oeste,…

  • Brazil’s government has taken important steps to combat racial inequalities over the past two decades. Afro-Brazilian populations nevertheless remain socially and economically excluded, continuing patterns that began with legal slavery.

  • Exhibit: “AfroBrasil: Art and Identities” National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum 1701 4th Street SW Albuquerque, New Mexico Friday, December 12, 2014 to mid-August, 2015; Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00 MT; Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00 MT Brazil* hosted soccer’s World Cup in the summer of 2014, and soon will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. While many are familiar with these events…

  • Expats Find Brazil’s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2015-05-22 Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent There is a joke among Brazilians that a Brazilian passport is the most coveted on the black market because no matter what your background — Asian, African or European — you…

  • Brazilian Racial Democracy: Reality or Myth? Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Volume 10, Number 1, (Fall/Winter 1982/83): Race & Ethnic Relations: Cross-Cultural Perspectives pages 129-142 Carlos Hasenbalg, Professor of Sociology Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro Suellen Huntington University of California, Berkeley The Brazilian claim to “racial democracy” is examined historically. and in…

  • Brazilian soap operas slowly cast black middle class Al Jazeera America 2015-04-11 Matt Sandy Morgann Jezequel Actor Sílvio Guindane poses on the set of the telenovela Vitória at Record studios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October, 2014. Rafael Fabres / Getty Images Assignment for Al Jazeera America Black actors move beyond roles as maids, thieves and…

  • Dismantling the Racial Paradise Stanford University Press Blog March 2015 Tiffany Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York How migration to and from the U.S. is transforming notions of race in Brazil. I still remember my first trip to Brazil—I was amazed…

  • Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race Stanford University Press February 2015 240 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804792202 Paper ISBN: 9780804794350 Digital ISBN: 9780804794398 Tiffany D. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York Race on the Move takes…