According to Conceição Evaristo (2009), in an article entitled “Literatura Negra: uma poética de nossa afro-brasilidade”, Afro-Brazilian literature portrays the bodies of black people in a positive humanized manner, even when they are forced to live under dehumanizing circumstances. Similarly, the images 1 and 2 show black Brazilian men working under inadequate conditions, and yet they are standing up with

Brazilian scholar Sueli Carneiro (2011), arguing about the importance of black feminism in Brazil and Latin America, states that black women never recognized themselves in the myth of the female fragility, because they were never treated as fragile. This is shown in Text 1 through Maria’s life, since she is