1. Maria Beatriz do Nascimento, known as Beatriz Nascimento, was an Afro-Brazilian academic and activist.
14 Facts About Beatriz Nascimento
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Beatriz Nascimento was an influential participant of the Black Movement of Brazil from its beginnings in the 1960s until her death.
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Maria Beatriz do Nascimento was born on 12 July 1942 in Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil to Rubina Pereira Nascimento and Francisco Xavier do Nascimento.
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Beatriz Nascimento's father was a mason and her mother raised their ten children.
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Beatriz Nascimento married Jose do Rosario Freitas Gomes and the couple subsequently had a daughter, Bethania Gomes.
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In 1977, Beatriz Nascimento was one of the speakers at the Quinzena do Negro, organized by Eduardo Oliveira e Oliveira at the University of Sao Paulo.
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Beatriz Nascimento strongly criticized the Brazilian Academy of Sciences for its racist policies.
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Beatriz Nascimento completed her graduate studies at UFF in 1981 and began a master's degree program at UFRJ studying communications with Muniz Sodre, a noted Brazilian sociologist and journalist.
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Beatriz Nascimento taught history at the Rome State School, in Copacabana and published articles in various newspapers and journals like Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, Folha de Sao Paulo, Revista Cultura Vozes, and Revista do Patrimonio Historico, while serving on the editorial board of Boletim do Centenario da Abolicao e Republica.
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Beatriz Nascimento was murdered on 28 January 1995 during a domestic dispute between Aurea and Antonio Jorge Amorim Viana, known as Danone.
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The murderer, Danone, believed that Beatriz Nascimento had counseled his wife, Aurea to leave him because of their violent relationship.
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Beatriz Nascimento was buried on 30 January 1995 at the Cemiterio de Sao Joao Batista.
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Beatriz Nascimento impacted international scholarship on black women, calling into question their invisibility because of patriarchy and colonialism, but because of the over-emphasis on the English-speaking diaspora among academics and the language barriers to intellectual discourse from non-Anglo scholars.
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Beatriz Nascimento caused feminist scholars to recognize the need for expanding research to encompass Afro-Latinas for a deeper understanding of the complexities impacting the African diaspora.