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Brazil: The only black woman in a beauty pageant

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Arts & Culture, Ethnicity & Race, Politics

Cris Rodrigues, from blog Somos Andando [We Are Walking, pt], writes [1] about racial prejudice in a beauty pageant in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where only one black woman competed among 29 other “white, tall, skinny and straight haired” contestants. She considers that the sample is not representative.