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The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics »

Authors: Robert M. Levine (Editor), John Crocitti (Editor), Orin Starn (Editor), Robin Kirk (Editor), Amelia Simpson
ISBN-13: 9780822322900, ISBN-10: 0822322900
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Robert M. Levine

Robert M. Levine is Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. He has published extensively on Brazil and is former chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Brazil. His previous books include The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940–1942, and Images of History, both also published by Duke University Press.

John J. Crocitti is Assistant Professor of History at San Diego Mesa College.

Book Synopsis

An interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary resources never before published in English.

	Acknowledgments
	A Note on Style
	Introduction	1
I	Origins, Conquest, and Colonial Rule
	The Origin of Fire	16
	Noble Savages	20
	A Description of the Tupinamba	25
	The First Wave	33
	Letter to Governor Tome de Sousa	37
	From the River of Jenero	41
	The Sins of Maranhao	43
	Minas Uprising of 1720	45
	Smuggling in the Diamond District	52
	Decree Elevating Brazil to a Kingdom	56
II	Imperial and Republican Brazil
	Declaration of Brazilian Independence, 1822	63
	The Baron of Parnaiba	65
	Uprising in Maranhao, 1839-1840	69
	A Paraiba Plantation, 1850-1860	76
	The Paraguayan War Victory Parade	87
	A Vanishing Way of Life	91
	A Mirror of Progress	93
	Drought and the Image of the Northeast	100
	Dom Pedro the Magnanimous	104
	Solemn Inaugural Session of December 24, 1900	107
	Intellectuals at Play	109
	City of Mist	110
	The Civilist Campaign	113
	Gaucho Leaders, 1923: Photograph	115
	Factory Rules, 1924	116
III	Slavery and Its Aftermath
	The War against Palmares	125
	Slave Life at Morro Velho Mine	131
	Scenes from the Slave Trade: Logbook Entries	135
	Cruelty to Slaves	138
	Slavery and Society	143
	Abolition Decree, 1888	145
	Laws Regulating Beggars in Minas Gerais, 1900	146
IV	The Vargas Era
	The Social Question	156
	Manifesto, May 1930	158
	Heroes of the Revolution: Composite Postcard Photograph	160
	The "Gold for Sao Paulo" Building, 1932	162
	Where They Talk about Rosa Luxemburg	166
	Two Versions of Factory Life	172
	Seized Correspondence from Communists, 1935-1945	176
	The Paulista Synagogue	182
	Why the Estado Novo?	184
	New Year's Address, 1938	186
	Rural Life	190
	A New Survey of Brazilian Life	195
	General George C. Marshall's Mission to Brazil	197
	Comments on the Estado Novo	200
	Educational Reform after Twenty Years	204
	Ordinary People: Five Lives Affected by Vargas-Era Reforms	206
	Vargas's Suicide Letter, 1954	222
V	Seeking Democracy and Equity
	Rehearsal for the Coup	231
	The Military Regime	235
	Excerpts from the 1967 Brazilian Constitution	238
	Tropicalism and Brazilian Popular Music under Military Rule	241
	Literature under the Dictatorship	248
	Pele Speaks	254
	The Maximum Norm of the Exercise of Liberty	258
	Families of Fishermen Confront the Sharks	260
	The Reality of the Brazilian Countryside	264
	The "Greatest Administrative Scandal"	268
	Life on an Occupied Ship	274
	A Letter from Brazil	277
	Inaugural Address	280
	Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Theory and Practice	289
	Is Brazil Hopelessly Corrupt?	295
VI	Women's Lives
	Aunt Zeze's Tears	302
	Tarsila and the 1920s	308
	The Integral Woman	317
	The Children Always Had Milk	319
	Women of the Forest	323
	My Life	327
	A Healer's Story	331
	Sonia, a Middle-Class Woman	334
	Family Life in Recife	337
	Xuxa and the Televisual Imaginary	343
	Dreams of Uneducated Women	348
VII	Race and Ethnic Relations
	A Letter from Brazil, 1918	354
	Growing Up Black in Minas Gerais	359
	Exotic Peoples	365
	Brazil: Study in Black, Brown, and Beige	367
	Immigrant Ethnicity in Brazil	374
	The Myth of Racial Democracy	379
	The National Day against Racism	382
	The Church Tries to Combat Prejudice	384
	What Color Are You?	386
	Mixed Blood	391
VIII	Realities
	The Animal Game	398
	How Brazil Works	402
	Iansa Is Not Saint Barbara	408
	Upward Mobility Is Possible	411
	Crab and Yoghurt	415
	Voices from the Pavement	420
	Pixote's Fate	423
	A Letter to President Cardoso	430
	The History of the Huni Kui People	432
	Urban Indians	436
	Mayor Orders Billboard Shacks Destroyed	441
	Cultural Imperialism at Its Most Fashionable	447
	The Gay and Lesbian Movement in Brazil	454
	Liberation Theology's Rise and Fall	462
IX	Saudades
	Bananas Is My Business	471
	The Invention of Tradition on Brazilian Radio	474
	Bahia Music Story	483
	O Axe de Zumbi	487
	At Carnival	490
	Two Poets Sing the New World	491
	Two Essays on Sports	497
	Suggestions for Further Reading	505
	Acknowledgment of Copyrights	511
	Index	519

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