Jacira (EN)

Jacira is an average Brazilian of multiethnic origin, however, still she is almost completely unaware of a part of her history, the family of her father, who despite having clear Amerindian origins, is not seen as such, due to the association that society as a whole has maintained for many decades. The book presents routine excerpts from the lives of three generations: a grandmother abducted from her village to marry a settler, her father, who despite being born in the interior, overcame the poverty in which she was inserted in "civilized" society and in the city achieved a better quality of life, also for his daughter, Jacira, the third generation described, who names the work. Jacira was the result of a bleaching process, and so she finds herself more easily inserted in this community than her father, who always noticed the discrete difference of how they treated him for his brown skin or his grandmother, who died unhappily and deprived of exercise their true culture.