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Article

1 Nov 2012

Author:
Nick Chiles, Atlanta Blackstar

Brazil, Colombia Grappling with Racism that Keeps Blacks on Bottom [Brazil]

For decades, Brazil touted itself as the most racially diverse society in the world…But that idea…has been torched as the nation in recent years has had to confront the reality that Black and Brown Brazilians remain at the bottom of Brazilian society on every measure…“We’re very happy, because in the past five years we’ve placed more blacks in universities than in the previous 500 years,” Frei David Raimundo dos Santos, a Franciscan friar who runs Educafro, a charity...“Today there’s a revolution in Brazil.” The next frontier is the labor market, where some cities like Rio are toying with affirmative action set-asides in hiring. If you stand outside the adjacent headquarters of Petrobras, the state oil company, and the National Development Bank in Rio at lunchtime, you will see that “all the managers are white and the cleaners are black,” says Frei David…