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The Guardian // World // Europe

‘We built Brazil’: how descendants of enslaved Africans have helped shape the country

Thursday 31st October 2024, 6:00AM

A new book explores the way Black people are playing a transformative role in the fight for equality despite centuries of enslavement and continued neglect“A cook for a small family is needed. Preferably white,” said an advertisement for a job vacancy in São Paulo, published in 1912 in one of Brazil’s largest newspapers.In 2019, in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state, a message in a WhatsApp group for caregivers advertised 10 positions at an agency: “The only requirements: must not be black or fat, and need at least three months of experience.” Continue reading...

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