{"id":47187,"date":"2016-05-29T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47187"},"modified":"2016-06-04T01:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T01:25:03","slug":"race-revolution-and-interracial-relations-revisiting-rapper-emicidas-video-boa-esperanca-the-most-courageous-video-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47187","title":{"rendered":"Race, revolution and interracial relations: Revisiting rapper Emicida\u2019s video \u2018Boa Esperan\u00e7a\u2019, the most courageous video of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/2016\/04\/25\/race-revolution-and-interracial-relations-revisiting-rapper-emicidas-video-boa-esperanca-the-most-courageous-video-of-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Race, revolution and interracial relations: Revisiting rapper Emicida\u2019s video \u2018Boa Esperan\u00e7a\u2019, the most courageous video of 2015<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Women of Brazil<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-25<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AauVal4ODbE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note from BW of Brazil<\/strong>: Get ready! Today\u2019s piece is one of those long articles in which you must read every word in order to get the full significance. The rapper known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emicida\" target=\"_blank\">Emicida<\/a> is perhaps the most popular rapper in Brazil right now and his star continues to rise. Last year, the rapper released the video for his song \u201cBoa Esperan\u00e7a\u201d, one of the most discussed music videos of last year and for good reason and you will no doubt agree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The video takes on the realities of race and class in modern day Brazilian society that date back all the way to the colonial era; a colonial era in which masses of Brazilian Indians were massacred and millions of imported Africans were forced to endure unthinkable conditions of cruelty, exploitation and death. As we have seen in numerous posts in the past, many black Brazilians still make references to the Casa Grande (big house\/slave master\u2019s home) to describe race relations in modern day Brazil, even as the institution of slavery officially ended in 1888, making Brazil the last country in the Western world to abolish this practice&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/2016\/04\/25\/race-revolution-and-interracial-relations-revisiting-rapper-emicidas-video-boa-esperanca-the-most-courageous-video-of-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race, revolution and interracial relations: Revisiting rapper Emicida\u2019s video \u2018Boa Esperan\u00e7a\u2019, the most courageous video of 2015 Black Women of Brazil 2016-04-25 Note from BW of Brazil: Get ready! Today\u2019s piece is one of those long articles in which you must read every word in order to get the full significance. The rapper known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,83,21,8413,459,1196,8,6940,842],"tags":[17123,23918,23910,23913,23912,23911,1392,23915,23914],"class_list":["post-47187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-communications","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-videos","tag-black-women-of-brazil","tag-boa-esperanca","tag-emicida","tag-joao-wainer","tag-katia-lund","tag-leandro-roque-de-oliveira","tag-music","tag-willians-santos","tag-xandra-stefanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47187","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=47187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47280,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47187\/revisions\/47280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}