"The children were killed so that they wouldn't grow up and become criminals, that's the philosophy of the people in power here. Being Black is as negative as it gets - it's a lot different from living here in England. I was really surprised when I came to Britain, to see Black people on TV, driving nice cars and dressing in fine clothes - it was a real surprise. In Brazil that would not happen. The only people you would see doing well would be the people with blue eyes and blonde hair." Earlier this year the Brazilian Centre for Expression of Marginalised Populations (CEAPM) planned to sue Transport Minister Eliseu Padilha after ahe made a racist remark about one of Brazil's national heroes, footballer Pele. A Brazilian Embassy spokesman told The Voice that it's not racism but rather the distribution of wealth that puts Blacks on the bottom of the pile. The spokeswoman said: "I am not denying that racism exists in Brazil but racism is a universal thing. The UK is more racist than Brazil. The main problem with my country is an economic/class one - the Black people do not have the economic muscle to climb to the top. The roots of this are deep in our history.
While Blacks fight for their survival, Colombia's wealthy have other preoccupations. In the highbrow, rarified and polluted air of Santafe de Bogota, the Miss Columbia contest parades its select young women before an expectant nation. The announcers painstakingly describe each aspirant, even to the color of her skin. Save for a few Euro-Indians and a couple of light-skinned Black contestants, all are "white." Miss Santefe de Bogota, the long-legged, white-skinned audience favorite emerges the winner. Barely two hours later and the new Miss Columbia launches her reign by visiting the Black beaches of Cartagena, the port-city through which all enslaved Africans entered Columbia. There, to the delight of the world's photographers, Miss Columbia contrasts her white beauty with the Black skins of heavy-set women from maroon (escaped slaves) communities. The headlines and photos run, front page and center: "Carolina between Maroons," an unabashed reference to the old maxim, "a rise between two thorns." Three years ago the wealthy matron who organizes the Miss Columbia pageant claimed the country was not ready for a Black Miss Columbia.
Siss,Ahyas (Editor), Monteiro, Aloisio Jorge de Jesus (Editor), and Cupolillo,Amparo Villa (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Rio de Janeiro: Quartet : EDUR UFFRI
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
191 p., Prefácio / Célia Linhares -- Imprensa alternativa negra, movimento negro e educação brasileira / Ahyas Siss -- Memórias de educação indígena : os jesuítas na construção de uma escola para indios no Brasil / Aloísio Jorge de Jesus Monteiro, Andrea de Lima Ribeiro Sales -- Cultura e corporeidades : perspectivas na formação de professores / Aloísio Jorge de Jesus Monteiro, Amparo Villa Cupolillo, Martha Lenora Queiroz Cupolillo -- Formação interdisciplinar em contextos interculturais / Darci Secchi -- Cinco ideias equivocadas sobre os indios / José Ribamar Bessa Freire -- A Baixada Fluminense na mídia : um olhar do jovem negro / Leila Dupret -- O samba é o dom : notas sobre o samba como fato social total e a educação escolar / Maria Alice Rezende Gonçalves -- Diversidade etnicorracial e o acesso de negros na educação superior na produção científica em Mato Grosso do Sul / Eugenia Portela de Siqueira Marques, Mariluce Bittar -- Diversidade cultural na escola : um estudo sobre o processo de implementação da Lei Federal 10.639/03 no estado de Santa Catarina / Maria Aparecida Clemêncio ... [et al.] -- Mídia cinematográfica, educação e racismo / Roberto Carlos da Silva Borges.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
205 p., Content: PME cor ou raça : setembro de 2006 -- Redação originária, exposição de motivos e redação dada pelo relator deputado federal Carlos Abicalil do PL 3.627/04 -- Boletim informativo sobre o 2° vestibular sob o sistema de cotas da UnB --Análise do cenário institucional do sistema de cotas da UnB -- Íntegra do leading case junto ao egrégio tribunal regional federal da 4a. região sobre a implantação do vestibular com cotas raciais e sociais da UFPR -- Avaliação do reitor da UFPR sobre o novo perfil da universidade pós-vestibular com o sistema de cotas -- Recursos administrativos envolvendo a seleção da UFPR pós-cotas -- Batalha jurídica para a implantação do vestibular de cotas da UFPR.
The carnival image of racial harmony When Brazil became a democracy in 1988, the new constitution specified that they should be given land. But in practice, only a handful have. The local priest in Camburi, Father [Alexander Coelho], urges villagers to unite to demand land. He says that Brazil has a race problem which it is only starting to face up to. "Three hundred years of slavery, 300 hundred years of submission - it's hard to teach people to change that mindset," he says. "In Brazil, there was no discussion about race ... there was a pseudo-equality. When we started to talk about it, we were accused of bringing racism to Brazil," he argues.
Compares curricular, ceremonial and pedagogical practices with how students and teachers make sense of racial identity and discrimination at the Jaime Hurtado Academy in the city and province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, which is the only region of the nation where Afro-Ecuadorian people comprise a majority of the population. Finds that schooling was structured as a regime of equality, where social science textbooks make invisible the concepts of race and Blackness while school ceremonies enforced membership to the nation. Shows through an examination of how students and teachers make sense of racial identity and discrimination that race was a significant factor shaping teaching and learning at the research site and argue that schooling practices are implicated in this process by attempting to submerge racial and cultural differences.
