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  • Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey

    Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey Africa is a Country 2014-06-17 Achal Prabhala Bangalore, India By the time you read this, it’s possible that every single person on the planet will know who Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior is… …You could come to any number of conclusions from Neymar’s remarkable transformation. For instance, you could conclude…

  • Black Identity and Racism Collide in Brazil

    Black Identity and Racism Collide in Brazil The Root 2014-06-17 Dion Rabouin The country’s complex history with race gains the spotlight as the World Cup attempts to address the recent wave of racist attacks against black players. Before teams representing their countries from around the world arrived in Brazil, the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, took…

  • Japanese Brazilians celebrate mixed heritage

    Japanese Brazilians celebrate mixed heritage Al Jazeera 2014-06-17 Jillian Kestler-D’Amour, Online Producer Sao Paulo, Brazil – The room was a mixture of Brazilian green and yellow and Japanese red and white, as more than 200 members of the city’s large Japanese community turned out to watch the country of their ancestors take on Cote d’Ivoire…

  • World Cup Racism Undercuts Brazil ‘We Are Equal’ Campaign

    World Cup Racism Undercuts Brazil ‘We Are Equal’ Campaign Bloomberg News 2014-05-30 Tariq Panjq Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anna Edgerton Brasilia, Brazil It was just a regular evening of monkey noises and racial slurs for Brazilian soccer referee Marcio Chagas. Then he left to go home. As he entered the parking lot after overseeing the…

  • “When I discovered I was black”, by Bianca Santana

    “When I discovered I was black”, by Bianca Santana Black Women of Brazil 2013-02-22 Originally published on 2010-02-12 by Bianca Santana as “quando me descobri negra” Bianca Santana I have been black for less than a year. Before, I was morena. My color was practically a prank of the sun. I was a morena for…

  • 687.8: The Apple Does NOT Fall FAR from the Tree: Offspring of Interracial Marriages in Brazil

    687.8: The Apple Does NOT Fall FAR from the Tree: Offspring of Interracial Marriages in Brazil XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 09:54 JST (Local Time) Room: Booth 54 Kaizô Iwakami Beltrão Ebape, FGV, Rio de Janeiro,…

  • JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage

    JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage—who is and who…

  • The Color Of Health: Skin Color, Ethnoracial Classification, And Discrimination In The Health Of Latin Americans

    The Color Of Health: Skin Color, Ethnoracial Classification, And Discrimination In The Health Of Latin Americans Social Science & Medicine Available online: 2014-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.054 Krista M. Perreira, Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean Office for Undergraduate Research University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New…

  • But your hair is so beautiful…

    But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo é tão bonito…” in Falando sem permissão) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly/kinky). It has gone…

  • Stunning Self-Portraits Make You Think Twice About Interracial Identity In South America

    Stunning Self-Portraits Make You Think Twice About Interracial Identity In South America The Huffington Post 2014-04-25 Katherine Brooks, Arts & Culture Editor Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão has been exploring themes of interracial identity through an unlikely medium—self-portraits. To confront and challenge concepts like colonialism and miscegenation in her home country, she turns her own visage…