..., their guards, and those responsible for running Brazilian prisons, which have institutionalized a sharing, in some cases the relinquishing, of de facto control of what goes on inside prisons and permitted the growth of some of the most powerful prison gangs to be found anywhere in the world. This article...

...Rodrigo Nunes This article looks at Brazilian films from two periods—the late 1960s and the last three years—in order to compare the ways in which they elaborate two moments of defeat for the Left: the 1964 military coup against João Goulart and the 2016 impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. Its focus...

...Alan K. Manchester Brazilian Culture. An Introduction to the Study of Culture in Brazil . By Azevedo Fernando de . Translated by Crawford William Rex . New York : The Macmillan Company . Pp. xxix , 562 . $12.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book...

...Alan K. Manchester The Masters And The Slaves [Casa-Grande E Senzala] : A Study In The Development Of Brazilian Civilization . By Freyre Gilberto . Translated From The Portuguese Of The Fourth And Definitive Brazilian Edition By Putnam Samuel . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1946...

...Alan K. Manchester The Brazilian Cotton Manufacture: Textile Enterprise in an Underdeveloped Area, 1850-1950 . By Stein Stanley J. . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1957 . Pp. xii , 273 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 145...

...Alan K. Manchester Marvelous Journey: A Survey of Four Centuries of Brazilian Writing . By Putnam Samuel . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1948 . Pp. xvi , 269 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews an intense identification with nature in its...

...Theodore Wyckoff Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Tjhe SOUTH ATLANTIC Quarterly BRAZILIAN POLITICAL PARTIES Theodore Wyckoff BRAZIL, larger in area than the United States and ranking third in population among the non-Asiatic nations of the world after the United States...

...Richard M. Morse Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Some Themes of Brazilian History Richard M. Morse In examining modern interpretations of Brazilian history and civi­ lization one is struck by the recurrent preoccupation with the theme of diversity and unity. The French...

...Pedro B. Mendes The year 2013 marked a turning point for Brazil. On one hand, it gave voice to a crisis involving the notion of development as a technocratic tool for achieving economic growth—in a “heated economy” at that. On the other hand, it signaled the rise of the Brazilian multitude...

...Sarah Ann Wells The consignment of industrial wage labor and its central figures to the status of ruins has become something of a cliché in contemporary scholarship and artistic practice. On this view, its demise first became apparent in the 1970s, the precise moment when Brazilian labor movements...

... appearances by movement leaders, these protests brought millions of Brazilian citizens to the streets in a wave of protests that eventually sparked Dilma's impeachment in May 2016. Deploying the conceptual framework of right‐wing Leninism, this article argues that conservative groups like the MBL are able...

... of consideration, this article focusese on the apparatuses for the psychic management of workers deployed by platform capitalism in Brazil. Within this scope, the article develops a double analysis: first, it examines the forms of subjectivity and the libidinal economy of Brazilian peripheral workers...

...Jean Tible How can we make sense of the current rise and strength of the far right in Brazil? This article aims to address this question by providing an analysis of Brazilian politics in recent years, exploring both its institutional aspects and factors exceeding this framework. It examines...

...-institutional offensive force. On the other hand, there is also a global dynamic limited to liberal democracies of institutional reform that cowers in the face of radical demands, such as the end of national policing above all. Finally, the constant colonization of Brazilian politics by society's militarized...

...Philip Evanson Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Understanding the People: Futebol, Film, Theater and Politics in Present-Day Brazil Philip Evanson Futebol or soccer is an enthusiasm of central emotional importance for millions of Brazilians. The passion forfutebol requires...

...Alan K. Manchester Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Racial Democracy in Brazil Alan K. Manchester Just as political democracy is the product of Anglo-Americans, so racial democracy is the handiwork of Brazilians.1 Nowhere in the country, even in the areas where black and mixed...

... vida de 74,6 anos, aponta IBGE” (“Brazilians Born with a Life Expectancy of 74.6 Years, according to the IBGE”) . Globo.com , December 2 . g1.globo.com/brasil/noticia/2013/12/brasileiro-nasce-com-expectativa-de-vida-de-746-anos-aponta-ibge.html . Galhardo Ricardo . 2013 . “Assassinatos...

... in the best Brazilian historical works on the subject rather than independent examination of documentary sources; as the author states in the preface, it is taken from the contributions of Brazilian historians. A bibliography of less than four pages lists the works consulted and footnotes are kept...

...J. Lorand Matory 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 J. Lorand Matory The ‘‘Cult of Nations’’ and the Ritualization of Their Purity Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian...

... of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition . Translated by Jordan Joshua David . Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) . Lula da Silva Luiz Inácio . 2002 . “Carta ao povo brasileiro” (“Letter to the Brazilian Population”) . June 22 . www.iisg.nl/collections/carta_ao_povo_brasileiro.pdf...