Black Authors Shake Up Brazil’s Literary Scene

 Young Black Brazilians are publishing on their own terms, achieving the critical and commercial success that eluded past generations of writers from marginalized communities.

 "Mr. Vieira says a major reason Black Brazilian writers are making their mark, writing and publishing on their own terms, is because of a shift in how race and racism are being discussed in the country today.

“For many years, Brazil tried to whiten its population and people avoided speaking about race in Brazil,” he said. “In the last decades, the Black rights movement and the study of structural racism has clarified our role in society.”"

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