Before teams
representing their countries from around the world arrived in Brazil,
the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, took the opportunity to label
2014 the “anti-racism World Cup.”
The declaration came after a wave of racist incidents
in soccer around the world targeting black players, many of whom are
Brazilian. While it’s a well-intentioned gesture and a particularly
important one for a World Cup being hosted in the country that’s home to
the largest population of people of African descent outside of Africa,
Brazil has a complex past and present when it comes to race.
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