SUCCESSFUL BLACK MEN IN BRAZIL DON'T MARRY BLACK WOMEN

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PART 3 OF THIS WEEK'S SERIES ON BRAZIL

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE IN BRAZIL

Part 1: http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-social-construction-of-race-in.html

REACT OR DIE: DANGEROUS TO BE BLACK IN BRAZIL 

Part 2  http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/03/react-or-die-its-dangerous-to-be-black.html

Black Brazilian actress Polly Marinho, 32, thinks this is a natural outcome in a country that values whiteness on television, in its magazines and in government. 

“We are educated to think, like, that black is not beautiful. Black is a slave. Black is not good,” said Marinho, who recently starred in a popular television show on Brazil’s largest television network. 

“Let’s take, for example, a very famous black soccer player. When they want money, they want good things. A beautiful house. A Ferrari and a white, white, blue-eyed chick."

When Marinho lived in New York for two years, she was surprised to see well-off African-American men seriously dating black women because it just doesn’t happen in Brazil. Although her acting career is booming in Brazil, she longs to return to New York for the plethora of acting opportunities and the black men. "

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 http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/03/why_successful_black_men_in_brazil_won_t_marry_black_women.html