Tag: blacks

Bronze sculpture of Zumbi dos Palmares, in Salvador, Bahia state

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 ...

Brazilian crowd in Salvador, Bahia

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 ...

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%. ...