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Modernity in Black and White
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Modernity in Black and White

  • Categories: Art

In his first single-authored English-language work, Rafael Cardoso offers a re-evaluation of modern art and modernism in Brazil.

The Street Is Ours
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

The Street Is Ours

A compelling history of the impact of automobiles on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

The Country of Football
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

The Country of Football

"In time for Brazil's hosting of the 2014 World Cup, this book uses the stories of star players and other key figures (based on over 40 interviews) to create a contemporary history of Brazilian soccer from the 1950s to the present. It also explores race and class tensions in Brazil and shows how soccer is central to the country's dramatic trajectory toward modernity and economic power"--

A Poverty of Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

A Poverty of Rights

A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.

Passado Presente
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 268

Passado Presente

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-12-06
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  • Publisher: Gramma

Poderá parecer algo desconcertante ao leitor formado pelos ideais vanguardistas do modernismo brasileiro a constatação de que, talvez, um dos seus principais legados tenha sido a construção de visões mais ou menos estabilizadoras sobre o passado colonial. Em linhas gerais essa é uma das boas provocações deste excelente Passado presente. Usos contemporâneos do “passado colonial” brasileiro. Não será mera casualidade que uma historiadora das práticas culturais, como Andrea Daher, é quem nos faça essa provocação na concepção, organização e prefácio da coletânea. Suas pesquisas e orientações tratam justamente das relações entre oralidade e cultura escrita, relaçõ...

Bumbás da Amazônia
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 224

Bumbás da Amazônia

A obra Bumbás da Amazônia: negritude, intelectuais e folclore (Pará, 1888-1943), de Antonio Maurício Costa, aborda o período que foi marcado por profunda transformação da cultura das classes populares e o modo como os intelectuais a interpretavam, considerando as interações entre sujeitos sociais na Amazônia brasileira. A partir do estudo dessas interações, o livro, em seus três capítulos, trata de um exemplo de história contemporânea da produção de significados acerca da noção de cultura popular, discutindo sobre os usos e as repercussões em torno de manifestações culturais produzidas por agentes das classes trabalhadoras.

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil

DIVHow the Xavante Indians have reshaped the Brazilian government’s policies of nationalism and assimiliation./div

Ateliê do pensamento social: a pesquisa sobre o Brasil no exterior
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 168

Ateliê do pensamento social: a pesquisa sobre o Brasil no exterior

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-20
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  • Publisher: Editora FGV

O presente livro se refere à quinta edição do Ateliê Internacional do Pensamento Social, da Fundação Getulio Vargas, e tem por tema-chave os Brazilian studies, que tratam de questões antropológicas, sociológicas e históricas da sociedade brasileira. Em sentido lato, compreende tanto estudiosos estrangeiros que se interessam pelo país quanto os centros de estudo sobre Brasil sediados no exterior. Para a amplitude do Ateliê, consideramos de igual maneira a formação internacional de intelectuais brasileiros, reconhecidos como 'intérpretes do Brasil', assim como a circulação e a recepção de obras que se tornaram referenciais no exterior.

In Search of the Amazon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

In Search of the Amazon

Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber trade. In the name of development and national security, Brazilian officials implemented public programs to engineer the hinterland's transformation. Migrants from Brazil's drought-stricken Northeast flocked to the Amazon in search of work. In defense of traditional ways of life, longtime Amazon residents sought to temper outside intervention. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.

Avoiding the Dark
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Avoiding the Dark

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 1999. This work examines the processes by which Brazilian nationalists forged and propagated an all-inclusive national identity, which attempted to promote racial harmony in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Specific emphasis is given to the rising patriotic feelings under the administration of President Getulio Vargas, which culminated in the creation of Estado Novo in 1937. Vargas’ generation succeeded in encouraging Brazilians to identify with ‘the nation’ above other possible communities, such as radical, ethnic or regional ones. In the process, nationalists created enduring national myths and symbols which successfully marginalised racial consciousness for the rest of the twentieth century.