Blacks in Brazil often Reduced to Just Talking about Black Issues

Blacks are regulated to talking about racial issues, reproducing structural racism

Nov.21.2019 11:26AM

It's a scene that plays out every year. During this month's commemoration of Black Consciousness Month--this Wednesday (20) is a holiday in over 1,200 Brazilian cities--black men and women from various areas of knowledge and the arts are invited to lecture, debate and talk about being black.

But this path to race debate in Brazil also produces structural racism, regulating Blacks to only talking about black issues. Afro-Brazilians tired of being regulated to just talking about Black Issues



Blacks are regulated to talking about racial issues, reproducing structural racism (Foto: Danilo Verpa/Folhapress, COTIDIANO) - Danilo Verpa

Rosane Borges, 45, Ph.D. in communication sciences and collaborating professor of the Aesthetic and Avant-garde research group of ECA-USP, said that she is always invited to talk about racial issues and about being a black woman, but never about communication and media, her specialty.

"It's not just that. I am an expert in communications. They take black people out of public life thinking, it's one of the most perverse faces of racism," she said.

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