{"id":42130,"date":"2015-08-05T02:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42130"},"modified":"2016-07-26T01:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T01:43:24","slug":"three-personal-stories-that-show-brazil-is-not-completely-beyond-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42130","title":{"rendered":"Three personal stories that show Brazil is not completely beyond racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/three-personal-stories-that-show-brazil-is-not-completely-beyond-racism\/article25761242\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three personal stories that show Brazil is not completely beyond racism<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe and Mail<\/a><br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<br \/>\n2015-07-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snolen?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stephanie Nolen<\/strong><\/a>, Latin America Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil\u2019s<\/a> national mythology is built on the idea of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\">democracia racial<\/a> \u2013 a country whose population is uniquely mixed and has moved beyond racism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The lived experience of its citizens, especially the majority who are black or mixed-race, tells a different story. Three residents of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bahia\" target=\"_blank\">Bahia<\/a>, known as the country\u2019s \u201cblackest\u201d state, share their personal stories with <\/em>The Globe and Mail\u2019s<em> Stephanie Nolen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018It\u2019s not easy to start working when you\u2019re 12\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cleusa de Jesus Santos was one of eight children whose father left when she was small. Her mother, illiterate and living in a slum, had no way to feed them all. \u201cA friend of my mum\u2019s said, \u2018There is a person who needs a girl, just to watch her son, to keep him company.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Ms. Santos was sent. \u201cBut when I got there, the reality was completely different: They said they were going to put me in school and so on, and they didn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t have vacation. I couldn\u2019t see my family.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/three-personal-stories-that-show-brazil-is-not-completely-beyond-racism\/article25761242\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three personal stories that show Brazil is not completely beyond racism The Globe and Mail Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2015-07-31 Stephanie Nolen, Latin America Correspondent Brazil\u2019s national mythology is built on the idea of a democracia racial \u2013 a country whose population is uniquely mixed and has moved beyond racism. The lived experience of its citizens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,83,21,8,394],"tags":[4090,20620,20611,20623,20622,20608,8908],"class_list":["post-42130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-bahia","tag-cleusa-de-jesus-santos","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-lorene-pinto-silva","tag-paulo-rogerio","tag-stephanie-nolen","tag-the-globe-and-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42130","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=42130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42166,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42130\/revisions\/42166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}