An Examination Of The Problematic Areas Of Inequality And Racism Within Brazil

The modernize approach of religion and traditions of the old African culture now converted into an Afro-Brazilian culture that still has an impact and exists today which is also still celebrated in Brazil. I believe that without slavery, many of the importance of both sides of society selling slaves and buying slaves would not have shaped humanity in the modern world. “Two centuries had seen African and European cultural religious and linguistic habits merging into unique Afro-Brazilian social and religious customs, music, and storytelling (Nellis 62).” The cultural influence of Afro-Brazilians has persistently grew from celebrations like carnaval into a mainstream popular culture. Brazil holds a variety of different ideas, culture and people. These ideas and traditions include musical interests, dancing, different food dishes, literature and art, festivities, and religious practices.

Perhaps many people may argue that both the US and Brazil have similar collections of ethnic and racial groups, that is a big minority of indigenous individuals, such as blacks and immigrants from Germany, Italy, and Asia. The presence of the minority groups in both nations was led by activities such as slavery and colonization during the19th-century (Wade, 2017). Chinese predominate the United States while Japanese predominate Brazil. Globalization and the rapid advancement in technology have demonstrated that technological revolution hasn't done much in altering the way of life and the belief of many people (Moran, 2014). With this in mind, I propose research on the differences in culture between Brazilians and Americans. This is because culture is social hence it is not an individual occurrence, it is a product of society, and it grows from social interaction. Culture is differentiable to us by comparison. Thus we should compare different cultures.

In conclusion, reading about Carolina’s life has had a huge impact on my learnings of Brazil. While reading this book, I was able to reflect on what we learned and discussed about life in the favelas in class. When I hear of Brazil, I always hear of the wealthy places, pretty women and beautiful sites to visit. However, the favelas and life of the poor people living in Brazil is rarely mentioned and talked about. Reading Carolina’s diary gave me a different image of the country and showed Brazil in another light. Carolina’s diary gave me more insight on what the daily life of a favelado is like and what people who live in the favelas experience on a daily

Professor Henry Louis Gates’ “Brazil: A Racial Paradise”, a documentary that focuses on the Afro-Brazilian population of Brazil, explored and exposed the concept of Racial Democracy; touted by the Brazilian government, it’s influence is largely overrated. (“Brazil: A Racial Paradise”, Black In Latin America, 2011, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Service, Web) While the institution of Racial Democracy has brought upon a certain amount of integration between Brazil and its 75 million Afro-Brazilians, the not so distant past-coupled with the realities of modern day racism-has left Afro-Brazilians alienated and discriminated against by mainstream society. However, since the abolition of slavery in 1888, coupled with the declaration of a Racial Democracy in the 1930’s and the leadership of influential Afro-Brazilians, Brazil has been quietly successful, albeit

Brazil is one of the most visited place in the world and also one of the most diverse countries in the world. More than 75millon people of African decent live in Brazil, this makes it the second largest black population in the world. Its attracts a large number of people because of it architecture, slums and rainforest. Brazil is contradictory because its was the last country to abolish slavery but also the first to claim that it was a racial democracy. Most people might not know that Brazil has its racial problems and that it has been going on for a long time. Brazilian race relations and conceptions of race are somewhat different from the United States. In Brazil most African descendents are people live in

In the sectioned of the pamphlet entitled “Superiority of mixed races”, Brazil was believed to be a country where the people were miscegenated, to further support the idea of mixing in the United States. However, the attitudes of race mixing in both countries were significantly different. Brazil has always been a black and mixed blood populated society, whereas the United States had always been white blood dominated compared to its black population. This paper will compare the differences of race mixing in the United States and Brazil after the American Civil War.

Afro Brazilians have had to deal with centuries of oppression. During these times, Afro-Brazilians have had to deal with various methods, and strategies designed to keep entire communities oppressed. Many of these methods have had effects so profound, they are still affecting many Brazilians till this day. Political oppression is one of the oldest methods known to man, along with unleashing a forceful police force mimicking military forces. Authoritarian rule also played a major role in the shaping of the country. Furthermore, an inept biased justice system will fail those who need protections, and justice the most. These four key modes will be objectively examined, as well as the efficacy of each of these repressive strategies, and the impact that they have had or still have in the Afro-Brazilian communities.

The purpose of this paper is to recognize, study and analyze the race relations in Brazil. Race relations are relations between two groups of different races; it is how these two different races connect to each other in their environment. Since Brazil is racially diverse, this study is focused on how Brazilians relate to each other. Throughout the essay, it will become clear that there exists a conflict between two race groups. Afro-Brazilians and White-Brazilians are not connected and though these two groups converse with each other, discrimination still lies within the society. This discrimination has created inequality within the society for Afro-Brazilians. Thus, this paper will not only focus on racism and discrimination that

Over the past several decades there has been an increase, in Brazil, of people whom self-identify as being black or Afro-Brazilian. What sparked the rise in these identities in Brazil? Was it possible material and intellectual gains or, sparked from activism, or from other possible factors. The black movement and affirmation of “black” identity came about much later in Brazil than in other countries such as the United States. In my opinion the most important factors for the rise in these identities are the material gains from the Quilombo Clause, the effects of affirmative action and quotas, as well as social activism.

Child of the Dark: Experimenting with Democracy Citlalli Guillen Gaeta History 162A: Modern Brazil June 1, 2018 “The cost of living makes the worker lose his sympathy for democracy.” Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus focuses on the living conditions of a poor Afro-Brazilian mother who lives in the Canindé favela during the late 1950s. Although this diary intended to record the lifestyle of the Favela, De Jesus captures the faults and inequalities of the entire Brazilian society. The diary explores a range of political and economic challenges that the Favelados must face during 1955-1960, in efforts to insinuate that the political economy of Brazil created a vicious cycle of poverty. De Jesus captivates the harmful effects of a weak

Fascism, communism, corporatism, nationalism and other current matters of the time were deeply discussed among Brazilian elites. There were also, however, pressing national issues to be worked out, which related in one way or another to the larger Western debates of the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1930s, the major issues debated by Brazilian elites were related to the building of a national identity, to the role of the State as an agent for that building and to safeguard the traditional order and the need for economic development in order to modernize Brazil.

In Kevin Bales’ novel, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, he examines modern slavery across the modern world in a number of different countries. For this report, I will be looking at the book’s fourth chapter entitled “Brazil – Life on the Edge”. Its opening section details how the Amazon rainforest’s destruction has forced the migration of many people away from their traditional homelands and, in some horrific cases, how this forced some of these people in slavery. The groups I read about included enslaved native Brazilians, African-Americans, and the charcoal miners of the states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Minas Gerais. The main yolk that the slaves of Brazil burden under is that of charcoal miners, among other underground

Racial Identification determines who has societal privilege and who does not. Race science develops as a method of separating groups of people in society during Pre-Colombian times. Those with more affluence in politics and the economy do not want to associate with those of less affluence, creating a divide between “them” versus “us”. However, Latin Americans perceive racial identity with more ambiguous terms, allowing one’s skin pigmentation to determine their social status. The reasons for such an altered definition of racial identity can be clearly identified in Hispaniola. The history European Imperialism and African slavery in Haiti and The Dominicans Republic must be viewed side by side, not separately from each other, for one country’s greatly its neighbor.

One of the country’s oldest cities and the first capital of Brazil, from 1796 to 1888, Salvador de Bahia had witnessed successful blending of European, African and Indigenous cultures. From 1558, the first slave market in the New World, with slaves arriving to work on the sugar plantations and later tobacco fields, Salvador became the poster-child for positive cultural assimilation. The slave trade, which lasted in Bahia until 1888 had a direct impact on the state today; large Afro-Brazilian population and its European, African, and Indigenous blend of cultures. The widespread impact of the slave trade on the county’s inhabitants, culture, and the economy proves that the slave trade in Salvador, Brazil led to more than an economical gain for the Portuguese. I argue that slave and race relations in Salvador, Brazil though atrocious had outcomes that remain vastly different from other colonized country’s experience during this time racially, socially, and economically.

During the colonial period, from 1500 till 1822, the Portuguese did not promoted their own language in Brazil, in contrast to the French and British colonisers. The French were single minded in the prosecution of their language and they were consicious of a ‘civilizing mission’ (Phillipson 111). Whereas the Portuguese main goals were not related to missionary or civilizing mission, they were primarily interested in wealth and resources. At first they were not planning to actually live in Brazil, therefore language policy was not their first concern. However this changed and more white, Portuguese men settled down in Brazil and due to the lack of European women, married the local women. In present Brazil 38.5% of the population is mulatto (CIA World Factbook), which is a mixture of black and white, as a result of these mixed marriages. The new ‘mulatto’ generation mainly learned to speak the language of the Tupinambá tribe, who were living along the Atlantic Coast