Chantal Feitosa-Desouza
Machine Learning Bias
2018
7 minutes (2-minute excerpt) Full version of video available upon request
Brazil became the last country in the world to abolish slavery in 1888. Between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries, the government enacted the initiative of embranquecimento (whitening) as a means to melhorar a raça (improve the race). The immigration wave from Europe that ensued served to racially reconstruct a predominantly black nation.