{"id":43770,"date":"2015-11-06T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43770"},"modified":"2015-11-06T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T02:43:00","slug":"i-am-a-woman-im-from-the-periphery-but-i-still-have-an-advantage-im-white-the-recognition-of-white-privilege-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43770","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI am a woman. I\u2019m from the periphery. But I still have an advantage: I\u2019m white\u201d \u2013 The recognition of white privilege and racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/2015\/11\/05\/i-am-a-woman-im-from-the-periphery-but-i-still-have-an-advantage-im-white-the-recognition-of-white-privilege-and-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI am a woman. I\u2019m from the periphery. But I still have an advantage: I\u2019m white\u201d \u2013 The recognition of white privilege and racism<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\" target=\"_blank\">Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-05<br \/>\nSource: <em>Geled\u00e9s Instituto da Mulher Negra<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geledes.org.br\/sou-mulher-suburbana-mas-ainda-to-na-vantagem-sou-branca\" target=\"_blank\">Sou mulher. Suburbana. Mas ainda t\u00f4 na vantagem: sou branca<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/camilacastanhomiranda\" target=\"_blank\">Camila Castanho Miranda<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/2015\/11\/05\/i-am-a-woman-im-from-the-periphery-but-i-still-have-an-advantage-im-white-the-recognition-of-white-privilege-and-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geledes.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/homenagem_ao_dia_da_mulher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a woman. I\u2019m from the periphery. But I still have an advantage: I\u2019m white.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I heard something that captivated me to write about a topic that always touches me, but I never feel able to write about it: racism. Obviously I never suffered racism. I\u2019m white. So I decided to write from the point of view that fits me best, that of the oppressor.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I need to say is that assuming the place of the oppressor is not being a bad person or something like that. It\u2019s simply understanding my historical position in society. The second important thing here is that, depending on the circumstance and deepening of my family tree, I cannot be white. But it\u2019s not what my skin and my hair say to society. So when talking about racism, I\u2019m white indeed. I could be beige, if you will. It doesn\u2019t matter, I\u2019m not black. I was never oppressed because of my image.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know you, but it took me a lot to me to realize that racism existed. It\u2019s hard to notice the little racism of everyday life when you don\u2019t suffer from it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/2015\/11\/05\/i-am-a-woman-im-from-the-periphery-but-i-still-have-an-advantage-im-white-the-recognition-of-white-privilege-and-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am a woman. I\u2019m from the periphery. But I still have an advantage: I\u2019m white\u201d \u2013 The recognition of white privilege and racism Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2015-11-05 Source: Geled\u00e9s Instituto da Mulher Negra, &#8220;Sou mulher. Suburbana. Mas ainda t\u00f4 na vantagem: sou branca&#8221; Camila [&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],"tags":[17123,17122,21787,21786],"class_list":["post-43770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","tag-black-women-of-brazil","tag-black-women-of-brazil-the-site-dedicated-to-brazilian-women-of-african-descent","tag-camila-castanho-miranda","tag-geledes-instituto-da-mulher-negra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43770","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=43770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43771,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43770\/revisions\/43771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}