Years before PBS's Black in Latin America series, BBC released an interesting documentary about slavery in Brazil called Brazil - An Inconvenient History. You'll see some familiar faces from the Brazil episode of the PBS documentary, and some similar themes, but the BBC documentary is much more focused on history than identity. There are times when it's a bit drier and more academic than the PBS documentary, but nevertheless worth watching. There are some incredibly harrowing details, and it uses interesting first person accounts from historical texts and documents.
Now it's available online, so watch here!
English
Português (legendado) - Parte I
Via Deep Brazil
I have not seen anything new in this British video. Blacks are treated as inferior in any society, no matter the percentage of blacks the country has. If blacks were valued in countries that control the world media, I am sure that Brazil and Africa would benefit from it. The Brazilians are also surprised as well as black Americans perpetuate the image of themselves as "black people" (Chris Brown etc) or how a white English characterizes what he thinks should be "a black"(Ali G.). In general what you see in the media are blacks as gangsters, and white as serious people, and the whites have even preference in how the history should be told.
Posted by: eric | June 25, 2011 at 12:20 AM