Category Archives: Santos
Neymar’s blond ambition and the question of racism, identity and marketability of black public figures
Three weeks ago, Brazil’s latest soccer sensation was at the center of another controversy in regards to the question of race. Santos soccer club/Brazilian national team superstar Neymar (da Silva … Continue reading
Alzira Rufino: poet, activist and nurse in the struggle to eliminate oppression and discrimination against black people
Alzira Rufino is a political activist active in the Movimento Negro and the Black Women’s Movement. From a poor black family, having worked since she was a child, at seventeen … Continue reading
Alzira Rufino: poet, activist and nurse in the struggle to eliminate oppression and discrimination against black people
Alzira Rufino is a political activist active in the Movimento Negro and the Black Women’s Movement. From a poor black family, having worked since she was a child, at seventeen … Continue reading
Woman from Santos, São Paulo, Brazil Source: Black Women of Brazil
Woman from Santos, São Paulo, Brazil Source: Black Women of Brazil
Laudelina Campos Mello
Born in the city of Poços de Caldas, in the state of Minas Gerais, in 1904, Mello worked as a domestic and became the first union leader of this occupation … Continue reading
