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Mauro Porto, "Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

New Books in Anthropology

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The Rise of Right Activists in Brazil

I think the change is coming from this new generation of activists that are really challenging the mirrors of whiteness. So there is more and more resistance, but I don't think I'm not optimistic about any possible changes in the mainstream media. We had recently the departure from TV Global of maybe Brazil's most famous black actor, Lazaro Halamu's left global after decades. That puts blackness and racial injustice at the core of the Brazilian debate.

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