Category Archives: Recife
Prejudice against blacks on the job is still a reality
Experiences with discrimination didn’t make these people give up their professional goals by Nathan Santos Prejudice against blacks, a legacy from the slavery era, is still present in the social … Continue reading
Journalist releases book to “prove fallacy” about racism in Brazil
Author Fabiana Moraes by Mariana Rennhard with supervision of Vanessa Gonçalves On August 29th, journalist Fabiana Moraes, the Jornal do Commercio, will release the book Nabuco em Pretos e Brancos … Continue reading
In Pernambuco, homicide kills 40 times more black women
In Pernambuco, homicide kills 40 times more black women A study shows that, in the northeastern city of Recife, Afro-Brazilian women between 20 and 29 years are killed more than … Continue reading
“Blacks have to assume their identity,” says woman who overcame prejudices
Juliane says her ex-mother-in-law always praised the light eyes of her former daughter-in-law Juliane and her 3-year old daughter When she was 20 some years old, Juliane Barros … Continue reading
“Blacks have to assume their identity,” says woman who overcame prejudices
Juliane says her ex-mother-in-law always praised the light eyes of her former daughter-in-law Juliane and her 3-year old daughter When she was 20 some years old, Juliane Barros from the … Continue reading
Thalma Freitas and Afro-Brazilians as "suspects of the standard color" in Brazil
In another example of the way in which brown skin is automatically associated with crime in Brazil, well-known actress/singer Thalma Freitas was stopped, picked up and taken to a police … Continue reading
