Brazilian television slowly confronts country’s deeply entrenched race issues

Brazilian television slowly confronts country’s deeply entrenched race issues

The Guardian
2015-10-07

Bruce Douglas
Rio de Janeiro

Mister Brau features a black couple known as Brazil’s Jay Z and Beyoncé in the lead roles – an unprecedented move in a country whose majority black population has long been sidelined in its leading leisure-time industry

In the middle of the night, a young black couple pull up at the entrance to an elegant mansion in an upper-class neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro.

Excitedly, they walk through the empty building into the garden and jump into the swimming pool. Their laughter wakes a white woman living next door.

Immediately, she grabs her binoculars. “Thieves,” she cries, and orders her sleepy husband to call security…

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