Why America’s Protests Resonate so Deeply in Brazil
Why America’s Protests Resonate so Deeply in Brazil
A shared legacy of racism is under the spotlight in both countries, the author writes
SÃO PAULO - I watch from Brazil as anti-racism protests flourish across the United States, and my heart fills with hope I think about the history of deep-rooted racism and resistance our countries share, despite the differences As the legal scholar Tanya Hernández pointed out in her book Racial Subordination in Latin America, while the United States established a legal system of segregation (the Jim Crow laws that lasted until the second half of the 20th century), Brazil built up its own version of Jim Crow through an official policy of whitening its population Through a variety of...
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