{"id":45924,"date":"2016-03-08T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45924"},"modified":"2016-05-21T00:11:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T00:11:28","slug":"when-i-discovered-that-im-black-how-racism-is-so-cruel-that-it-makes-it-difficult-for-black-people-to-recognize-themselves-as-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45924","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen I discovered that I\u2019m black\u201d: How racism is so cruel, that it makes it difficult for black people to recognize themselves as such"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen I discovered that I\u2019m black\u201d: How racism is so cruel, that it makes it difficult for black people to recognize themselves as such<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent<\/a>
\n2016-03-04<\/p>\n

J\u00f4natas Cordeiro da Silva<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Originally \u201cWhen I discovered that I\u2019m black: \u201cI\u2019ll tell my story, because I also have one.\u201d<\/a>\u201d from <\/em>Hey Fala, January 11, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today I feel the necessity of telling you how I discovered myself (and I\u2019m still discovering) as black, which I will cover in a brief discussion of miscegenation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I see some cases, such as for example, (futebol<\/em> star) Neymar who says that he\u2019s not preto<\/em> (black)<\/a> or Caio (You Tuber Jout Jout\u2019s boyfriend) who declares himself pardo<\/em> (brown)<\/a>. I remember how difficult it was for me to recognize myself as black. I always knew that I wasn\u2019t white, not only by the color of my skin, hair, and features, but also because of the places that neither I nor my ancestors occupied, however there is a big difference between not being branco (white) and being black.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to point out that in some way miscegenation in Brazil<\/a> was historically simple, also one of the factors for miscegenation was the rape of black women enslaved by their colonizers, indigenous women were also violated. Black people were blamed for the backwardness of the Brazilian nation, there was a eugenicist plan<\/a>, which envisaged that through the \u201cmistura de ra\u00e7as\u201d (melting pot or mixture of the races) the extinction of black people by 2012<\/a>, so then Brazil would be a developed nation…<\/p>\n

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

\u201cWhen I discovered that I\u2019m black\u201d: How racism is so cruel, that it makes it difficult for black people to recognize themselves as such Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2016-03-04 J\u00f4natas Cordeiro da Silva Originally \u201cWhen I discovered that I\u2019m black: \u201cI\u2019ll tell my story, because I […]<\/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":[17123,17122,23153,23152],"class_list":["post-45924","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-hey-fala","tag-jonatas-cordeiro-da-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924","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=45924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45926,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924\/revisions\/45926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}