Racismo na religião e nas artes by Fernanda Tomm

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

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The first indicators of racism emerged in the colonization times.
Racial segregation laws were made in the following decades.
Centuries XVI and XVII - Catholicism questioned whether black people and Indians had a soul/could be considered human.
Darwin's Evolutionary Theory - was used by thinkers to explain genocide and racism.

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Structural / Historical Prejudice
The Jewish race is the most affected by religious prejudice in the United States
2018 - biggest attack on Jews in the country’s history

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Música - Racist messages that corroborate to the normalization of segregation.

Examples:

Ice cream and racism in the USA - alluded to the black character "Zip Coon" (became a pejorative synonym to black men).
The USA's National Anthem - racist verses and the writer was a white supremacist.

    -“No refuge could save the hireling and slave. From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave”

Works of art - Works of art that make clear the hierarchy of racist and prejudiced society,
Examples:

Cinema - BLACKFACE - the act of painting someone's body with black paint to represent black people.

Jim Crow - character in a song that the slaves used to sing, which later in history became the name of the segragationists laws in the United States in the 20th century.
Hollywood Productions - there's still very little black representation in movies - hardly ever is there a black character

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