Breaking the Silence

Abstract

Há tempo de calar e há tempo de falar. O tempo de calar passou, começou o tempo de falar.

Introduction

“…not be seen as reflecting a lower degree of Afro-racial consciousness, but as perhaps more a reflection of the dominant modes of public politics"politics that often enforced racial silence. 31 In these contexts, especially within nations that idealized racelessness, racial harmony, or racial democracy, success within the field of journalism required Afrodescendant writers to build public identities that did not emphasize their Blackness.…”