‘We cannot deny history again’: Brazil floods show how German migration silenced Black and Indigenous stories
by Tiago Rogero in São Leopoldo from World news | The Guardian on (#6NTFA)
The promotion of European immigration was linked to the idea of whitening the Brazilian population', say historians
Dominga Menezes was only 12 years old when she danced for a dictator.
It was 25 July 1974, and Sao Leopoldo, a medium-sized city in Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, was celebrating both the anniversary of its founding and 150 years of German immigration to Brazil.
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