Tag: blacks
Palmares, Brazil’s Slave Rebellion, Still Going On 400 Years Later
The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves, Indians, and a few ...
Brazil’s False Image of Racial Harmony Has Accomplice: the Black Population
In retrospect, I often ponder the following questions: Do people really not see the ...
Brazil’s Biggest Show on Earth Is Also a Way to Keep Blacks in Their Place
This past January (2006) I noted the sudden barrage of naked negra/mulata flesh on ...
Blackness’s Fear and Stigma Make Brazil a 6% Black Country
I would now like to turn my attention to the ever popular argument concerning ...
The Mulatto Is Proof Brazil Has No Racism. But Blacks Can’t Accept That
Say what you want about Marx, but we cannot deny that he was a ...
Brazil Needs Affirmative Action for Blacks, Indians and Gypsies, Says Minister
Brazilian society has a cultural debt with blacks, Indians, and gypsies, and reparation requires ...
In Brazil, 43% of Blacks and 20% of Whites Live Below Poverty Line
The majority of Brazil’s poor population is formed by blacks. This is what researchers ...
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 ...
African Diaspora Finds in Brazil That Education Is the Way
The 3rd Conference of the Association for the Study of World African Diaspora (ASWAD), ...
70% of Brazil’s Work Force Are Women and Blacks
Women represent 43% of the Economically Active Population (EAP), in Brazil, and blacks, 46%. ...
