Post on 18-Dec-2014
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Diversity in the
Brazilian Media
• Outside of Africa, Brazil is the nation with the second largest black population in the world; and the 6th biggest economy in the world.
• 51.3% (about 95 million) of the population is of African descent and would self-identify as Black or mixed race – see recent article in the UK Guardian, “Brazil census shows African-Brazilians in the majority for the first
time,” the Brazil Census results: http://tinyurl.com/7x2rhhq • In the whole Latino American region there are 150
million Afro-Latinos
The context
Blacks are underrepresented in Brazilian Media. In Brazilian television, for example, 90% of journalists and anchors are white. Stereotype, prejudice and invisibility are the rule for this population.
The problem
The thief
The domestic servant
Characters have no psychological depth as the white ones do, which means no family, relatives or background histories.
Stereotypes
slavery
Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery in 1888.
Afro-Brazilians on the TV
Only in 2011 was it possible to have the first leading black man in soap opera
CONTROVERSY
Concentration of ownership
Law Code of Communication: 1962
271 politicians are associated or directors of 324 media groups.
Brazil has the biggest media market in South America:
Underlying Causes
ABOUT US
The Instituto Midia Etnica is a leading ethnic media organization in Brazil that carries out projects to ensure the human right to communication and the use of technological tools for socially excluded groups, especially the African-Brazilian community.
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ABOUT US
Established in 2005
ABOUT US
We’ve done more than 4.000 articles, videos and interviews in the past 4 years that we have released our web portal and covered several issues related with diversity, human rights, racism, culture, tourism, ethnic business and politics. Beside it, we have trained more than 600 young people on media tools.
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Among the interviewed: current president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, Dr. Angela Davis (ex-Black Panthers), Shirley Franklin (ex-Atlanta Mayor), Lazaro Ramos (actor), Marina Silva (senator and former president candidate), Benedita da Silva (ex-senator), Abdias Nascimento (most prestigious black leader in Brazil), Carlos Moore (writer and Fela Kuti’s official biographer), Jaques Wagner (Governor of Bahia State), Jeremiah Right (ex- Barack Obama’s priest), Congressman Luiz Alberto, Marie-Roger Biloa (CEO of Africa International Group – France), Patrick Lozès (current candidate of president in France).
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Pr. Jeremiah Wright Singer Gilberto GilMs. Franklyn, Ex- Atlanta mayor
Ms. Rousseff, president of Brazil Dr. Angela Davis Actor Lazaro Ramos
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Paulo Rogerio Nunes is a producer and media executive with 10 years of experience. He has been recognized as a social entrepreneur by Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship. Paulo has helped to create “Midia Etnica” in 2005.
Mr. Rogerio has produced documentaries, videos and written for several media organizations. He is currently a contributing writer for Americas Quarterly Magazine, the leading publication about policies in the western hemisphere. Previously, the magazine had chosen him as one of the top 25 young leaders in the region.
Paulo is currently at the University of Maryland, as the only scholar representing Latin America, in the esteemed Fulbright Humphrey Fellowship Program.
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