{"id":45880,"date":"2016-03-03T02:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45880"},"modified":"2016-03-03T02:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:46:38","slug":"photo-series-celebrates-the-black-girl-power-of-brazilian-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45880","title":{"rendered":"Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a>
\n2016-03-02<\/p>\n

Zeba Blay<\/strong><\/a>, Voices Culture Writer<\/p>\n

It highlights women who are Afro-Brazilian and proud.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the past two years, Brazilian journalist Weudson Ribeiro<\/a> has been documenting the beauty of Afro-Brazilian women by photographing spontaneous portraits of them in an ongoing project. The result was released this month in a photo essay called “Superafro: O poder da mulher negra”<\/em> or “Superafro: BLACK GIRL POWER.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The project, which features candid portraits of black women from Brazil, seeks to highlight women who proudly stand in their own blackness as a political statement.<\/p>\n

Ribeiro, a 24-year-old journalist and political scientist based in Bras\u00edlia<\/a>, has been taking photos for nearly a decade. He is the only son of mixed-race parents, and says that for a long time he struggled with “understanding and accepting my own blackness.”<\/p>\n

“It’s a problem that affects the vast majority of Brazilians as a result of our highly mixed ethnic backgrounds,” Ribeiro told The Huffington Post…<\/p>\n

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

Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women The Huffington Post 2016-03-02 Zeba Blay, Voices Culture Writer It highlights women who are Afro-Brazilian and proud. For the past two years, Brazilian journalist Weudson Ribeiro has been documenting the beauty of Afro-Brazilian women by photographing spontaneous portraits of them in an ongoing project. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,83,21,8,25],"tags":[10108,147,2425,23124,19185],"class_list":["post-45880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-huffington-post","tag-photography","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-weudson-ribeiro","tag-zeba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45880","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=45880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45944,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45880\/revisions\/45944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}