The Brazil Files: Link Love!
by Racialicious Special Correspondent Wendi Muse
For those of you who are interested in learning more about Brazil beyond what I cover here, which is mainly from the pop culture/race perspective, check out this awesome site: Eyes on Brazil . The author and blog moderator Adam covers many facets of Brazilian life and culture, and gives the perspective of an estrangeiro (“foreigner”) without patronizing, belittling, or exoticizing Brazil and its people. It’s also a great site if you have general questions about Brazil and/or want to work on your Portuguese as Adam is highly responsive to comments and posts short video clips on Brazilian Portuguese colloquial expressions and slang. Here’s a bit more about the site from the author:
Eyes On Brazil exists in order to give a deeper understanding of the Brazilian arts (as well as all things Brazilian) to an English-speaking audience. Personally, I’ve spent almost 10 years studying (and dreaming of) the sleeping South American giant known as Brazil. Seven of those 10 years were focused teaching myself Brazilian Portuguese, and as such, I consider myself fluent.
Adam also has sibling sites on Belem (Brazil), Salvador (Brazil), and even Colombia.Veja já!
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Adam wrote:
Wow, thank you for the shout out and the kind words! I’ll do my best to keep posted on future Brazil-mentions here on Racialicious as racial issues in Brazil are ignored by many…perhaps in hopes that the issue will just go away on its own.
Check out the header image on the Asia blog for O Globo
http://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/panoramanihon/
This is pretty common in Brazil, also found in popular ads for products related to Asia.
Regards
Posted 05 May 2009 at 10:59 am ¶
Wendi Muse wrote:
wow…that header is…demais. one of myprevious brazil files articles was about a co-worker who does the same thing when he talks about asians. i never realized it was so widespread as to be a header for a column about japanese culture!!!! terrible
Posted 05 May 2009 at 4:29 pm ¶
Adam wrote:
Here’s a bit more on the issue
http://riogringa.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/the-asian-eyes-controversy.html
Cheers
Posted 06 May 2009 at 1:42 pm ¶