• ‘A need for memory’: Black Brazilians dig into family roots to fight ‘historical erasure’

    ‘A need for memory’: Black Brazilians dig into family roots to fight ‘historical erasure’
    Attention is turning to individuals and families as country confronts legacy of slavery and question of reparationsEliana Alves Cruz and Branca Vianna grew up at a similar time in different neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro. But the two Brazilian women had very different experiences of their family history.Cruz, 57, was always surrounded by elderly relatives, yet struggled to get them to recount stories about the men and women who had preceded them. In contrast, Vianna remembers the omnipresent f

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