... Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco and Luiz Antonio Norder   Rural Settlements and the MST in São Paulo 10 From Social Conflict to the Diversity of Local Impacts São Paulo is Brazil’s most populous...

... Sao Paulo Avenida Sao Joao Cristiano Mascaro Sao Paulo is today a city of over fifteen million people. They travel its streets incessantly, streets illuminated here and there by cracks of light passing between its...

... ∞ São Paulo as a Developing Society The political conflicts of the first third of the twentieth century are incomprehensible without a basic description of São Paulo as a place and a brief discussion of its people. Both were shaped by a welter of overlap- ping changes in the society...

...Teresa P. R. Caldeira F r o m M o d e r n i s m to N e o li b e r a li s m i n S ã o Pau lo R e c o n F I g u r i n g t h e c I t y a n d I ts c I t i z e n s n the last twenty years the city of São Paulo and its large metro- I politan region have experienced deep...

...1 “Non à la Biennale de São Paulo” On Monday, 16 June 1969, a group of artists and intellectuals gathered at the Paris City Museum of Modern Art to discuss the storm surrounding the X São Paulo Biennial, now only months away. Scheduled to open in Septem- ber...

... APPENDIX 1 Dossier “Non à la Biennale de São Paulo” Read at the Paris City Museum of Modern Art (16 June 1969).1 I am going to stand up here as a living witness against the São Paulo Bien- nial this year because it is completely dominated by the ridiculous rules im- posed by...

...: : : Hip-Hop in São Paulo Identity, Community Formation, and Social Action Wivian Weller and Marco Aurélio Paz Tella The Brazilian hip-hop movement emerged in São Paulo in the 1980s at a time when international black music had already attracted a large num- ber of...

...: : : “Conquistando Espaço” Hip-Hop Occupations of São Paulo Derek Pardue Yeah, we’re professors. We teach citizenship. Hip-hop is about an attitude of self and community. But, you know, beyond that, hip-hop is about taking over a space. —DJ Bris, Interview...

... Constructing the Working-Class Woman in Sao Paulo, Brazil BARBARA WEINSTEIN Joan Scott, in her widely read Gender and the Politics qf History, analyzes the con• struction of the...

... Gender Ideology, Work, and Working-Class Women's Lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1900-1950 THERESA R. VECCIA A daughter of Spanish immigrants who came to work the coffee groves at the turn of the century...

... Paulo known as ABC (named after the municipios of Santo Andre, Sao Bernardo do Campo, and Sao Caetano). One of Latin America's preeminent industrial centers, the ABC region has expanded at an accelerating pace since its first factories were established at the turn of the century. From a...

... C H A P T E R F I V E Another “Global Vision” (Trans)Nationalism in the São Paulo Black Press In 1923, thrilled with a recent trip to Brazil, a prominent African American journalist made plans to send black farmers from the U.S. South to expand Brazilian cotton...

... This chapter seeks to highlight the general importance of internal migration to the formation of the working class in São Paulo, Brazil, after the Second World War. In dialogue with specialized literature and primary sources, the chapter explores the internal migration of workers from the...

... This chapter introduces the reader to the brief civil war in 1932, known as the Constitutionalist Revolution, which pitted São Paulo against Brazil’s federal government and its chief executive, Getúlio Vargas. It argues for an approach to this episode that emphasizes the construction of...

... society, arguing that the uprising had significant popular support but at the same time reinforced a regional identity that was white and middle-class. Working-class paulistas were more divided in their loyalties, but large numbers of Afro-paulistas joined the Black Legions fighting for São Paulo, and...

... Given the very real differences in levels of wealth and economic production between São Paulo and most other Brazilian states, but especially those in the North and Northeast, how did political groups in the latter regions respond to claims of paulista superiority? This chapter examines the...