{"id":37304,"date":"2014-09-08T20:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37304"},"modified":"2014-09-08T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:57:34","slug":"marina-silva-the-political-dynamo-who-has-electrified-the-election-season-and-wants-to-be-brazils-first-black-woman-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37304","title":{"rendered":"Marina Silva: The political dynamo who has electrified the election season and wants to be Brazil\u2019s first black woman president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marina Silva: The political dynamo who has electrified the election season and wants to be Brazil\u2019s first black woman president<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent<\/a>
\n2014-09-05<\/p>\n

Marina Silva: a pioneer in politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Primeiros Negros<\/strong>, Jos\u00e9 Eust\u00e1quio Diniz Alves<\/strong>, and Luciana Lima<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first black woman candidate to the Presidency of the Republic, Maria Osmarina Silva<\/a>, known as Marina Silva, comes from an unusual trajectory that began in February 8, 1958, in a place called Breu Velho in the seringais<\/em> (rubber plantations) of the state of Acre<\/a>, seventy miles from downtown Rio Branco<\/a>, the capital of Acre. She remained there until at age 16, still illiterate, to earning international recognition in defense of the environment, becoming minister and postulated becoming president of Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her parents Pedro Augusto and Maria Augusta had eleven children, of whom only eight survived. She hunted, fished, worked as a maid and became literate only after 16 years of age. She graduated in History from the Federal University of Acre. She is married to F\u00e1bio Vaz de Lima and has four children, Shalom, Danilo, Moara and Mayara.<\/p>\n

In four years, Marina went from illiteracy to the vestibular (college entrance exam). She graduated with a degree in History and postgraduate in Psychoanalysis…<\/p>\n

…Marina Silva is a mesti\u00e7a<\/em> (person of mixed race) and brings in her blood the three colors\/\u201draces\u201d that form the Brazilian people: \u00edndios<\/em> (Indians), brancos<\/em> (whites) and pretos<\/em> (blacks). By definition of the IBGE<\/a>, Marina can be classified as a person of parda<\/em> (brown) color. The grouping of parda<\/em> and preta<\/em> color is defined as the popula\u00e7\u00e3o negra<\/em> (black population), according to the methodology adopted by most Brazilian researchers. The negro<\/em> is the sum of people who self-declare themselves \u201cpardas\u201d and \u201cpretas\u201d. So in terms of \u201crace\u201d, the \u201cindiazinha\u201d (little Indian) Marina can be defined as cabocla<\/em> (of mixed indigenous decent), mulata<\/em> or negra<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marina Silva: The political dynamo who has electrified the election season and wants to be Brazil\u2019s first black woman president Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2014-09-05 Marina Silva: a pioneer in politics By Primeiros Negros, Jos\u00e9 Eust\u00e1quio Diniz Alves, and Luciana Lima The first black woman candidate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,8,26],"tags":[17123,17848,17858,17847],"class_list":["post-37304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-black-women-of-brazil","tag-maria-osmarina-marina-silva-vaz-de-lima","tag-maria-osmarina-silva","tag-marina-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37304","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=37304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}