Race and Nation in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Brazil

These four books provide important insights into Brazilian racial dynamics from both traditional and contemporary perspectives. Each contributes to the recent surge in scholarship on race in..

Covid-19 - Morbimortalidade pela COVID-19 segundo raça/cor/etnia: a experiência do Brasil e dos Estados Unidos

This study sought to describe the experience of Brazil and the United States in relation to COVID-19 morbidity and mortality data according to race/skin color/ethnicity.  Toward this end, it seeks to describe the factors involved in the treatment and dissemination of the morbimortality data for this pathology in the two countries. The analysis includes epidemiological bulletins released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, partial results from Brazil’s National Household Survey (PNAD) for COVID-19 collected by the Brazilian Institutes of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), and state-of-the-art health data about the impact of the pandemic in the United States, from the perspective of race/skin color/ethnicity. Despite the low quality of health information on the COVID-19 morbidity and mortality of the black population, the results corroborate racial inequities in health for COVID-19, confirming the existence of structural and institutional racism in both countries.  This article highlights the need to qualify data about race/skin color/ethnicity, by relating them to age, place of residence, type of residence, access to basic sanitation, and occupation, among other social determinants, that impact how individuals become ill and die from COVID-19, in order to enact strategies and public policies that truly promote equity.Este estudo objetivou descrever a experiência do Brasil e dos Estados Unidos em relação aos dados de morbimortalidade por COVID-19, segundo a raça/cor/etnia. Para isto, procurou-se descrever os fatores envolvidos no tratamento e divulgação dos dados de morbimortalidade por esta patologia nos dois países. Foram analisados boletins epidemiológicos divulgados pelo Ministério da Saúde, resultados parciais da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostragem de Domicílio (PNAD) COVID-19 realizada pelo IBGE no Brasil e o estado da arte em saúde sobre os impactos da pandemia nos Estados Unidos, sob a perspectiva de raça/cor/etnia. Apesar da baixa qualidade da informação em saúde referente à morbimortalidade da população negra por COVID-19, os resultados desvelam iniquidades raciais em saúde para a COVID-19, ratificando o racismo estrutural/institucional em ambos países. Como contribuição, enfatiza-se a necessidade de qualificar os dados sobre raça/cor/etnia, relacionando-os à idade, local de moradia, tipo de residência, acesso a saneamento básico, ocupação, dentre outros determinantes sociais, que sabidamente impactam no modo de adoecer e morrer pela COVID-19, a fim de viabilizar estratégias e políticas públicas verdadeiramente promotoras da equidade

Mulheres negras, militância política e justiça social no Brasil

Este artigo discute as contribuições políticas e intelecutais de militantes do movimento de mulheres negras no Brasil. A anólise enfoca a emergência do movimento de mulheres negras a partir dos anos 1980 e examina o desenvolvimento do movimento, enquanto prática política e crítica social. Esta análise também chama atenção para a a importância da militância das mulheres negras na promoção da cidadania plena e justiça social na sociedade brasileira, particularmente durante o processo de democratização

Racialized Boundaries: Women's Studies and the Question of “Difference” in Brazil

This paper examines the Invisibility of race and black women's experiences in Brazilian Women's Studies scholarship. Through a comparative analysis of Women's Studies scholarship in England, the United States, Canada and Brazil, the author explores how the question of racial differences among women has been treated in different national contexts. The analysis underscores the absence of race in most Brazilian Women's Studies scholarship and suggests the need to focus on racial "difference" and the relationship between race and gender in order to better understand the diverse experiences of Brazilian women

Creating a Feminist Community on a Woman of Color Campus

This article examines the importance of centering the experiences of women of color in U.S. women\u27s studies courses and the usefulness of this approach in building feminist solidarity among women of color students. Our observations are based on experiences as faculty members at a racially and ethnically diverse public university in the Los Angeles area. This campus is often described as being one of the most diverse universities in the United States. Thirty-one percent of the students are African American, 30 percent are Latino, 26 percent are white, 12 percent are Asian Pacific Islander, and less than 1 percent are Native American. In addition, a full 70 percent of the students are women