Sisters in Europe: Who We Are (2)...Leticia Pereira dos Santos (Italy)
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Leticia Pereira dos Santos is a social activist born in Brazil in 1978 who moved to Italy at age 13. She has faced racism as a woman of color in both Italy and Brazil. She works as an intercultural facilitator in schools in Italy to promote cultural understanding and represents women of color. She is now preparing to graduate with a degree in social studies from the University of Turin.
Sisters in Europe: Who We Are (2)...Leticia Pereira dos Santos (Italy)
- 1. Sister in Europe: Who we are´(2) Leticia Pereira dos Santos (Italy) ? Uncaged Birds?
- 2. Leticia Pereira dos Santos Student, intercultural facilitator, social activist www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
- 3. Leticia Pereira dos Santos Born in the Brazil in 1978 Moved to Genoa, Italy at the age of 13. Her mother had moved there 3 years prior to build a better life for herself and her daughter Because of her immigrant status and her skin color, made to feel like an outsider at school and by her new Italian stepfather¨s family www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
- 4. Leticia Pereira dos Santos In high school she lashed out physically at a boy for repeated racist comments. Suspended from school and unable to complete the year. Worked as a babysitter in the interim. Being treated as a menial by her employers motivated her to continue her education with new focus and direction. Now preparing to graduate in social studies from the University of Turin. www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
- 5. Leticia Pereira dos Santos According to Leticia, there are very few role models for women of African descent in her age group in Italy. Many are immigrants from South America and Africa, who suffer the double stigma of racism and economic disadvantage. Representation of people of color in the media, politics, advertising is either non-existent or ridden with stereotypes. www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
- 6. Leticia Pereira dos Santos Leticia works in schools as an intercultural facilitator. To combat some the those stereotypes, Leticia developed a project that shows children that migration as a natural cultural phenomenon and increases understanding for its motivations and results. www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
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- 9. Leticia Pereira dos Santos 2007 - Leticia returned to her native Brazil to study for a year at the University of S┐o Paulo, one of the country¨s most prominent institutes of higher learning. The decidedly affluent student body is approximately 99% white. www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
- 10. Leticia Pereira dos Santos The only black student in her course on International and Diplomatic Studies, Leticia experienced the university and its student body as a very hostile environment. This experience C as well as her confrontation with the poverty most people of color endure in her homeland C led to Leticia¨s social activism www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
- 11. Leticia Pereira dos Santos ＾´ In Brazil (the) poverty has a colour, and its colour is my colour and there are many people that want this. My challenge now is showing (´) children of my colour how to change their lives, how to share the prestige atmosphere...how to be citizens! My challenge now is dedicated to the future...a better future for our sons and daughters!...￣
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- 13. Leticia Pereira dos Santos 2007 C While in Brazil, she organized a seminar about the tradition and culture of Samba for foreign students 2007 C Part of the EDUCAFRO commission in the Brazilian state legislature to approve the Racial Equality Statute 2007 & 2008 C Took part in a march in S┐o Paulo for Black Consciousness 2008 C Organized her first workshop for Brazilian children helping them focus on/formulate their dreams and goals for the future www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
- 14. Leticia Pereira dos Santos 2009 C Gave poetry reading of her own work in Italy about immigrant life 2009 C 2010 C Working with young people 16 to 21, she successfully collaborated with the Scouts on fostering intercultural dialogue back in Italy www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
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- 16. Leticia Pereira dos Santos ＾´ It is very hard to be a black activist in Italy. I feel alone: first, because I know few black women that have studied here in Genoa or Turin; second, because being an activist means having the consciousness of what you are and where you want to go. Unfortunately Italy limits the high places for (´) people (that) are different, especially if you are black(´). That¨s why I want to move on again. My mother worked hard to give me a better life and it is impossible here in Italy. I would like (to) live where my rights are really recognized´￣
- 17. Leticia Pereira dos Santos Leticia C who loves working with and for children - is also an aspiring writer of children¨s books In her free time, Leticia enjoys photography, drawing and singing old samba tunes. www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
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- 19. Uncaged Birds?´ is a collection of confidence- and skill-building programs created especially for women of African descent living and working in Europe. Let¨s be our own r?le models ! As women of color in Europe, r?le models who look like us are often few and far between. That¨s why Uncaged Birds ? is regularly spotlighting women of African descent living and working in Europe and their story C so everyone will know´ ´ who we are! www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com
- 20. Uncaged Birds? ´ ´ poised to take FLIGHT! www.uncagedbirds.wordpress.com