“A cook for a small family is needed. Preferably white,” said an advertisement for a job vacancy in São Paulo, published in 1912 in one of Brazil’s largest newspapers.
In 2019, in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state, a message in a WhatsApp group for caregivers advertised 10 positions at an agency: “The only requirements: must not be black or fat, and need at least three months of experience.”
