Good morning,
Is it possible that you could further elaborate? Is racism in Brasil inter-racial or intra-racial? Is your writing on the subject available in academic article or journalistic article form? If your writings are academic can you also forward your literature review and/or bibliography?
Thank you,
La Vonda R. Staples
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Toyin Falola <toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
--From: Andréia Lisboa de Sousa <souzaliz@yahoo.com.br>Reply-To: souzaliz@yahoo.com.brSubject: racism in Brazilian systemTo: Andreia Yahoo Sousa <souzaliz@yahoo.com.br>Dear Comrades,My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is somethingat least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity. (Audre Lorde, 1984)Our struggle against racism in Brazil is everlasting. The social tensions in the country have been quite troubling to me. As election results, we had a woman for the first time as a president, but unfortunately we had also an artist and a illiterate clown - known for his racist lyrics whose artistic name is Tiririca - elected as a state representative. Another issue was the demonstration of force utilized by the police in Rio two weeks ago brought to light the serious social and racial problems we face in Brazil due to many decades of state neglect.Finally, the Ministry of Education has just approved the wide distribution of a children's book that was first published in the 1930's, which is profoundly racist and sexist and so far Black organizations have been unable to prevent this disaster. As you see the situation over here continues to be challenging for us who are engaged in the case of human rights in Brazil.I would like to count on your deep support to fight agaisnt racist books in the school system in Brazil. Please, sign up the petition about Racism in the Brazilian Educational System: www.ipetitions.com/petition/against_racist_books_in_brazil/Please, forward this message to your lists and close contacts. Maybe you have contact with activist organizations, journals, magazines, TV, radio stations, human rights organizations etc around the world. I would extremely appreciate if you could embark on this endeavor. I hope we can create an international mobilization and African Diasporic struggle for this situation. The full article is attached.Andreia Lisboa de SousaFord Foundation FellowUniversity of Texas at Austin (USA)International Affairs Coordinator of theBlack Brazilian Research Association--Toyin Falola
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