Tag: racism
How Music Has Brought Blacks Back to the Brazilian Melting Cauldron
Since the second half of the 20th century, global or ‘World’ music has become ...
Inequality Is As Brazilian As the Weather and the Beaches
On Sunday, February 5, the Brazilian TV program Fantástico presented three shocking reports. One ...
Quotas Are the Brazilian Way to Keep Things as They’ve Always Been
Recently a young black man asked me if I saw a relationship between race ...
Brazilian Black Female Workers Make Half As Much As White Women
Black and mulatto women in Brazil receive, on the average, around half of what ...
Brazil Won’t Know Democracy Before 44% in Power Are Black
Just recently we remembered Zumbi of Palmares, on Black Consciousness Day (November 20). He ...
Brazil’s Runaway Slaves Descendants Want Title to Land They Live In
Friday, December 2, was the first day of Brazil’s national encounter of communities formed ...
Illiteracy Among Blacks in Brazil Is 17%. Among Whites, 7%.
Ending prejudice begins with education. With this motto, Brazil’s Ministry of Education’s (MEC) 3rd ...
In Brazil, AIDS Kills More Blacks than Whites
The campaign, Together with Children and Adolescents – Together We Shall Overcome AIDS! – ...
Blacks in Brazil Start Working Earlier and Retire Later than Whites
Brazilian blacks tend to enter the job market at an earlier age and spend ...
Brazilian Black Entrepreneurs to Get a Boost from Government
Brazil’s Special Secretariat of Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (Seppir) and the ...
