{"id":59877,"date":"2020-07-06T13:56:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59877"},"modified":"2020-07-06T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:56:59","slug":"having-a-black-great-grandmother-made-me-non-white-popular-white-dj-defined-herself-as-brown-to-enter-college-through-brazils-affirmative-action-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59877","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHaving a black great-grandmother made me non-white\u201d: Popular white DJ defined herself as brown to enter college through Brazil\u2019s affirmative action program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/having-a-black-great-grandmother-made-me-non-white-popular-white-dj-defined-herself-as-brown-to-enter-college-through-brazils-affirmative-action-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>\u201cHaving a black great-grandmother made me non-white\u201d: Popular white DJ defined herself as brown to enter college through Brazil\u2019s affirmative action program<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Women of Brazil<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-11<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Luana Benedito<\/strong> and <strong>Juca Guimar\u00e3es<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/having-a-black-great-grandmother-made-me-non-white-popular-white-dj-defined-herself-as-brown-to-enter-college-through-brazils-affirmative-action-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1_larissa_busch-17481016.jpg?w=700\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Larissa Busch defined herself as \u2018brown\u2019 in order to get into college through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Affirmative_action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affirmative action<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Young woman entered the university in the modality that contemplated \u201cself-declared black, brown or indigenous candidates regardless of income\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>24-year-old digital influence Larissa Busch admitted to cheating the racial quota system at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_University_of_Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal University of Rio de Janeiro<\/a> (UFRJ) in a long post on her Instagram profile this Tuesday (2). The young woman, who is white, joined the educational institution in the Social Communication course, in the second half of 2014, in the modality that contemplated \u201cself-declared black, brown or indigenous candidates regardless of income\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2014, six years ago, I made the worst choice of my life and I\u2019m here to talk about it with all the guilt that I carry. I entered the university calling myself \u2018parda\u2019 (brown\/mixed). Yes, this is horrible and there is not a day that I don\u2019t think about it. I have kept this shame inside me for a long time and as much as I feel sad that the dirtiest episode of my life is becoming public, I always knew that this day would come\u201d, said Larissa in an excerpt of the text&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/having-a-black-great-grandmother-made-me-non-white-popular-white-dj-defined-herself-as-brown-to-enter-college-through-brazils-affirmative-action-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After exposure on the web, white influencer admits to having defrauded quota at UFRJ [Federal University of Rio de Janeiro]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,2895,21,6462,26],"tags":[17123,30966,30965,30968,30964,30967],"class_list":["post-59877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-campus-life","category-latincarib","category-passing-2","category-politics","tag-black-women-of-brazil","tag-federal-university-of-rio-de-janeiro","tag-juca-guimaraes","tag-larissa-busch","tag-luana-benedito","tag-ufrj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59877","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=59877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59879,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59877\/revisions\/59879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}