{"id":43312,"date":"2015-10-18T20:59:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43312"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:40:15","slug":"brazilian-television-slowly-confronts-countrys-deeply-entrenched-race-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43312","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian television slowly confronts country&#8217;s deeply entrenched race issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/oct\/07\/brazil-television-mister-brau-black-couple-race-issues\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilian television slowly confronts country&#8217;s deeply entrenched race issues<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bruceecurb\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bruce Douglas<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Rio de Janeiro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mister_Brau\" target=\"_blank\">Mister Brau<\/a><em> features a black couple known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jay_Z\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Z<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyonc%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> in the lead roles \u2013 an unprecedented move in a country whose majority black population has long been sidelined in its leading leisure-time industry<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately, she grabs her binoculars. \u201cThieves,\u201d she cries, and orders her sleepy husband to call security&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/oct\/07\/brazil-television-mister-brau-black-couple-race-issues\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian television slowly confronts country&#8217;s deeply entrenched race issues The Guardian 2015-10-07 Bruce Douglas Rio de Janeiro Mister Brau features a black couple known as Brazil\u2019s Jay Z and Beyonc\u00e9 in the lead roles \u2013 an unprecedented move in a country whose majority black population has long been sidelined in its leading leisure-time industry In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,8413,8],"tags":[21447,21448,21366,21368,2103],"class_list":["post-43312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-communications","category-media-archive","tag-bruce-douglas","tag-lazaro-ramos","tag-mister-brau","tag-tais-araujo","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312","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=43312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51636,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312\/revisions\/51636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}