{"id":43954,"date":"2015-11-13T02:46:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T02:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43954"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:58","slug":"its-difficult-in-brazil-to-point-out-racism-they-always-say-brazil-is-a-mixed-country-we-are-not-the-us-we-are-not-south-africa-and-if-you-raise-racial-questi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43954","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s difficult in Brazil to point out racism&#8230; They always say \u2018Brazil is a mixed country, we are not the US, we are not South Africa,\u2019 and if you raise racial questions, you\u2019re seen as trying to separate that.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> to point out racism,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inesc.org.br\/biblioteca\/textos\/alexandre-ciconello\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandre Ciconello<\/a>, a human rights expert and adviser to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amnesty_International\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a taboo for the elite of the country and for politicians and authorities. They always say \u2018Brazil is a mixed country, we are not the US, we are not South Africa,\u2019 and if you raise racial questions, you\u2019re seen as trying to separate that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willcarless.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Carless<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43950\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil\u2019s \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 struggle \u2014 even deadlier<\/a>,\u201d <em>Public Radio International<\/em>, November 3, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-11-03\/brazils-black-lives-matter-struggle-even-more-dire\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-11-03\/brazils-black-lives-matter-struggle-even-more-dire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult in Brazil to point out racism,\u201d says Alexandre Ciconello, a human rights expert and adviser to Amnesty in Rio de Janeiro. \u201cIt\u2019s a taboo for the elite of the country and for politicians and authorities. They always say \u2018Brazil is a mixed country, we are not the US, we are not South Africa,\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23674],"tags":[21883,16382,7162,21882],"class_list":["post-43954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-social-justice","tag-alexandre-ciconello","tag-pri","tag-public-radio-international","tag-will-carless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43954","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=43954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43955,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43954\/revisions\/43955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}