{"id":60066,"date":"2020-07-08T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=60066"},"modified":"2020-07-09T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:17:06","slug":"seven-brazilian-intellectuals-to-help-us-understand-racism-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=60066","title":{"rendered":"Seven Brazilian Intellectuals to Help Us Understand Racism in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/glo.bo\/37ePzB7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PT-e1439583827971.png\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For the original article in Portuguese published in O Globo click <a href=\"https:\/\/glo.bo\/37ePzB7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protests against racism and police violence have broken out in the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3gIMQEc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and Brazil<\/a>, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, calling attention to the importance of the antiracist struggle in these countries. In addition to protests organized by movements like Black Lives Matter and, in Portuguese, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3gIMQEc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vidas Negras Importam<\/a>, the issue of race is being highlighted daily by a range of intellectuals who see the question of racism as central to these societies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of these thought-leaders have been sharing content for free on social media. <em>O Globo<\/em> has selected a few of these intellectuals, all of whom can help those who want to better understand the structural problems caused by the history of slavery in Brazil and how <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2YGmWXk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racism continues to produce inequality in the country<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Silvio Almeida<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30eygP1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silvio Luiz de Almeida<\/a> is a lawyer, professor at the Get\u00falio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and Mackenzie Presbyterian University, in Brazil, and at Duke University in the US. In his books, articles, and publications on social media, he discusses how structural racism manifests itself in Brazil, using examples that range from soccer to questions of national politics and the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pt\">Quem diria que o racismo iria emergir como uma das quest\u00f5es centrais no s\u00e9culo XXI? Respondo: praticamente TODXS xs intelectuais que estudaram a fundo o tema. A perplexidade diante dos protestos \u00e9 o sintoma do descaso e da neglig\u00eancia com um tema que sempre foi fundamental.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Silvio Almeida (@silviolual) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/silviolual\/status\/1267271551445094403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who would have guessed that racism would stand out as one of the central questions of the 21<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century? Answer: practically ALL the intellectuals who have studied the topic in depth. The perplexity at the protests is a sign of the neglect and the negligence of a topic which has always been fundamental.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Sueli Carneiro<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30haJga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sueli Carneiro<\/a> is a philosopher and activist with a PhD in education from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP). She is the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2YarkQd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geled\u00e9s Black Women&#8217;s Institute<\/a>. One of the pioneers in articulating the intersectionality of race studies and gender issues, Carneiro also studies how actions like the establishment of affirmative action policies in universities impact the transformation of social indicators in the black population.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pt\">Amigas, amigos e amigxs<\/p>\n<p>Em nome de Geled\u00e9s Instituto da Mulher Negra, gostaria de te convidar para participar da nossa campanha sobre o genoc\u00eddio da popula\u00e7\u00e3o negra que ocorre hoje no twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sueli Carneiro (@SueliCarneiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SueliCarneiro\/status\/1240980089069805569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friends [written in Portuguese three times to include all genders]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the name of the Geled\u00e9s Institute for Black women, I would like to invite you to participate in our campaign about the genocide of the black population, happening today on Twitter.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Djamila Ribeiro<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philosopher and writer <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/377nbAL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Djamila Ribeiro<\/a> is the author of books like <i>O que \u00e9 o lugar de fala?<\/i> (What is Place of Speech?), <em>Quem tem medo do feminismo negro? <\/em>(Who is Afraid of Black Feminism?), and\u00a0<em>Pequeno manual antirracista<\/em>\u00a0and (A Short Anti-Racist Handbook). Ribeiro is also engaged in disseminating intellectual works by black women from throughout history.<\/span><time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2020-05-13T22:00:49+00:00\"><\/time><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60408 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Post by Djamila Ribeiro\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Djamila-Post.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Djamila-Post.png 600w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Djamila-Post-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are black women contemplating and developing the world. When we are targeted by discrimination, this is not seen as a problem. When we act to empower ourselves, we cause discomfort. Race and gender are interwoven and combined: for some bodies, the material and daily experience of racism is not separate from the experience of sexism. Intersectionality is a methodological tool developed by black feminists and used to challenge the white-centered conception of the subject. We need to definitively break with the idea of the existence of a universal subject\u2014yes, we speak from different places. To attribute a common identity to categories which are distinct socially is a categorization error. And if we work with this hypothesis, how can we aim for the emancipation of black women, using the experience of sexism experienced by white women as a basis? Caution is needed when defining the reality we are talking about. We must understand that differences are a problem when they mean inequality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Edit: in the editing of the video, the <em>n\u00e3o <\/em>(\u201cdon\u2019t\u201d) was deleted. The correct version is \u201c<em>a gente<\/em> <em>n\u00e3o eleja qual opress\u00e3o \u00e9 mais importante<\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;we don\u2019t choose which oppression is most important&#8221;).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Djamila Ribeiro (@djamilaribeiro1) <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3iqwUrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Fl\u00e1via Oliveira<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journalist and <em>O<\/em> <em>Globo<\/em> columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30kMn5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fl\u00e1via Oliveira<\/a> addresses racism from perspectives like that of the economy, in which she shows how black people face the <a href=\"https:\/\/glo.bo\/3h4uCxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest rates of unemployment<\/a>, for example.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pt\">Na primeira leva de estat\u00edsticas sobre a pandemia nos EUA, em Louisiana sete em cada dez mortos eram negros; em Chicago 72%. \u00c9 desfecho que espreita o Brasil, onde pretos e pardos s\u00e3o quase 56% da popula\u00e7\u00e3o. A crise tem cor e g\u00eanero. \u00c9 negra e feminina. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lNWt9yXJvG\">https:\/\/t.co\/lNWt9yXJvG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fl\u00e1via Oliveira (@flaviaol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flaviaol\/status\/1248626475026137093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first set of statistics about the pandemic in the USA, in Louisiana, seven in every ten deaths were of black people; in Chicago, 72%. This is the outcome that awaits Brazil, where black and brown people are almost 56% of the population. The crisis has a color and a gender. It is black and female. Article title: Black people and women face the highest rates of unemployment.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Winnie Bueno<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academic and digital influencer <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Uk4VPq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winnie Bueno<\/a> is the creator of the project \u201cWinnieteca,\u201d which connects people through donating books to promote the debate against racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VidasNegrasImportam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VidasNegrasImportam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VidasNegrasImportam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VidasNegrasImportam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VidasNegrasImportam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VidasNegrasImportam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 winnieteca (@WinnieTeca) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WinnieTeca\/status\/1267234814173810691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Jurema Werneck<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director of Amnesty International Brazil, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2MEjRU9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jurema Werneck<\/a> is also a medical doctor and holds a PhD in communication and culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2G9KCND\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFRJ<\/a>). She works with themes including human rights and public policy for the black population.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pt\">As palavras faltam diante de mais uma pessoa negra assassinada por agentes do Estado! Nos EUA e no Brasil, \u00e9 preciso lutar contra o <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/racismo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#racismo<\/a> sempre! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VidasNegrasImportam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VidasNegrasImportam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMatters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMatters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t6F5yhJzgU\">https:\/\/t.co\/t6F5yhJzgU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jurema Werneck (@juremawerneck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juremawerneck\/status\/1265595939768676358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Words fail us in the face of another black person killed by officers of the State! In the USA and in Brazil, we must always fight against #racism! #VidasNegrasImportam #BlackLivesMatter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Lilia Schwarcz<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anthropologist, historian, and professor at USP and Princeton <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/37cbsk8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lilia Schwarcz<\/a> is a reference for race studies in Brazil and the author of works like <em>Nem preto nem branco, muito pelo contr\u00e1rio<\/em> (Neither Black nor White, Quite the Opposite) and\u00a0<em>Retrato em branco e negro: jornais, escravos e cidad\u00e3os em S\u00e3o Paulo no fim do s\u00e9culo XIX<\/em> (A Black and White Picture: Newspapers, Slaves, and Citizens in S\u00e3o Paulo at the End of the 19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Century).<\/span><time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2020-05-31T00:21:10+00:00\"><\/time><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60407 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Post by Lilia Schwarcz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Schwarcz-Post-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Schwarcz-Post-2.png 600w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Schwarcz-Post-2-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United States is experiencing a very high-pressure moment. Everything started with a response to the death of George Floyd, a black man whose neck was pressed down on by the knee of a white police officer from the city of Minneapolis. The scene was not an exception, but the norm. However, at the height of his racism, President Donald Trump defended that states and cities act in a \u201cmuch tougher\u201d way, and threatened to introduce severe measures, which could include the use of the military. On Friday night, there were protests in at least 30 cities in the USA, with clashes in a portion of them. Unfortunately, this isn\u2019t an unfamiliar scenario here in Brazil. Jo\u00e3o Pedro, a 14-year-old boy, who \u201cdisappeared\u201d after he was shot in a police operation in Rio, and taken away by a helicopter, with the family only managing to find the body on this Tuesday morning [May 19], at the police morgue, is proof of the black genocide committed here in Brazil as well. It will not be with force that we end racism. It will not be with stereotypes either. These deaths must not become cold statistics. We need to face the central theme, which continues to be the killing of black people by the police: here and in the United States. There is no democracy with racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lilia Schwarcz (@liliaschwarcz) <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2BUhAlQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<h4><b>Support our efforts to provide strategic assistance to Rio\u2019s favelas during the Covid-19 pandemic, including\u00a0<\/b><b><i>RioOnWatch<\/i><\/b><b>\u2019s tireless, critical and cutting-edge hyperlocal journalism, online community organizing meetings, and direct support to favelas\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/FavelaCovidResponse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by clicking here<\/a><\/b><b>.<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original article in Portuguese published in O Globo click here.\u00a0 Protests against racism and police violence have broken out in the United States and Brazil, in the middle of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=60066\" title=\"Seven Brazilian Intellectuals to Help Us Understand Racism in Brazil\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":60067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1288,1290,2242,1330],"tags":[2467,1163,2295,1189,279,796,2470,2323],"writer":[1749],"translator":[3062],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-highlight","8":"category-civilsociety","9":"category-democracy","10":"category-translation","11":"tag-black-lives-matter","12":"tag-civil-society","13":"tag-philosophy","14":"tag-racism","15":"tag-slavery","16":"tag-social-media","17":"tag-sociedade-escravocrata-slave-holding-society","18":"tag-ufrj","19":"writer-o-globo","20":"translator-cormac-whitney-low"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60066"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=60066"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=60066"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=60066"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=60066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}