What Amazon’s Música Gets Right On Brazilian Americans

As a Brazilian-Colombian tradition critic, the shortage of specificity and the generalization of Latine folks as one group has all the time been irritating at finest and dangerous at worst. Tales about Brazilian immigrants within the U.S. barely exist, and after they do, they don’t mirror the realities and experiences of precise Brazilian immigrants. From the fetishization of Brazilians — each women and men — as sexually unique characters to the casting of Hispanic Latine or simply full-on Spanish actors to play Brazilians (shout out to Javier Bardem in Eat, Pray, Love; what a weird casting alternative) who battle with the Portuguese-accented English, these are particulars that somebody who isn’t Brazilian most likely wouldn’t discover. However for me, it’s a lifeless giveaway that the scriptwriters of a undertaking don’t care to know their Brazilian characters and are utilizing their Brazilianness as a strategy to exoticize that individual character. I had just about given up on any U.S. TV or movie that explores Brazilian immigrants with a humanizing strategy, till Amazon Prime Video’s Música.