{"id":34682,"date":"2013-11-12T02:09:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T02:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34682"},"modified":"2013-11-12T02:11:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T02:11:10","slug":"brazil-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34682","title":{"rendered":"Brazil in Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/episodes\/brazil-in-black-and-white\/introduction\/965\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil in Black and White<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wide Angle<\/a><br \/>\nPublic Broadcasting Service<br \/>\n2007-09-04<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As one of the most racially diverse nations in the world, Brazil has long considered itself a colorblind \u201cracial democracy.\u201d But deep disparities in income, education and employment between lighter and darker-skinned Brazilians have prompted a civil rights movement advocating equal treatment of Afro-Brazilians. In Brazil, the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, blacks today make up almost half of the total population \u2014 but nearly two-thirds of the nation\u2019s poor. Institutions of higher education have typically been monopolized by Brazil\u2019s wealthy and light-skinned elite, and illiteracy among black Brazilians is twice as high as among whites. Now, affirmative action programs are changing the rules of the game, with many colleges and universities reserving 20% of spots for Afro-Brazilians. But with national surveys identifying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=19063\" target=\"_blank\">over 130 different categories of skin color<\/a>, including \u201ccinnamon,\u201d \u201ccoffee with milk,\u201d and \u201ctoasted,\u201d who will be considered \u201cblack enough\u201d to qualify for the new racial quotas?<\/p>\n<p><strong>About The Film<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I black or am I white?\u201d Even before they ever set foot in a college classroom, many Brazilian university applicants must now confront a question with no easy answer. <em>Brazil in Black and White<\/em> follows the lives of five young college hopefuls from diverse backgrounds as they compete to win a coveted spot at the elite University of Brasilia, where 20 percent of the incoming freshmen must qualify as Afro-Brazilian. Outside the university, <em>Wide Angle<\/em> reports on the controversial racial debate roiling Brazil through profiles of civil right activists, opponents of affirmative action, and one of the country\u2019s few black senators.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g29P3-xj7GQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/episodes\/brazil-in-black-and-white\/introduction\/965\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil in Black and White Wide Angle Public Broadcasting Service 2007-09-04 About the Issue As one of the most racially diverse nations in the world, Brazil has long considered itself a colorblind \u201cracial democracy.\u201d But deep disparities in income, education and employment between lighter and darker-skinned Brazilians have prompted a civil rights movement advocating equal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,2895,21,1467,8,26,394,842],"tags":[6107,6108,3421,16342],"class_list":["post-34682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-campus-life","category-latincarib","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-videos","tag-pbs","tag-public-broadcasting-service","tag-university-of-brasilia","tag-wide-angle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}