Barack Obama Is Brazilian

Author : Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137583533
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barack Obama is Brazilian written by Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines US President Barack Obama’s characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. Brazilians celebrate their country as a racial democracy; thus the US works as its nemesis. The rise of a black president to the office of the most prominent country in the global, political, and economic landscape led some analysts to postulate that the US was living in a post-racial era. President Obama’s election also had a tremendous impact on the imaginary of the African Diaspora, and this volume investigates how the election of the first black US president complicates Brazilians’ own racial discourses. By focusing on three events—Barack Obama's election in 2008, his visit to Brazil in March 2011, and the aftermath of the US espionage on the Brazilian government in 2013—Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte analyzes Barack Obama's shifting portrayals that confirm and challenge Brazilian racial conceptions projected upon his figure.

Author : Fernando Jorge
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523393923
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If Not for Brazil Obama Would Have Never Existed written by Fernando Jorge and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sensational and enlightening book that uncovers Barack Obama's mother's obsession with a Brazilian film

Author : Larry Rohter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230120733
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil on the Rise written by Larry Rohter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. This title, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country of immense power.

Author : O Globo
Publisher : O Globo
ISBN 13 : 8598888818
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hello, Obama written by O Globo and published by O Globo. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning work of investigative journalism by Glenn Greenwald, José Casado and Roberto Kaz revealed how the US intelligence services have spied on Brazilian authorities. Following huge amount of data released by Edward Snowden, they exposed how the NSA has tapped phones and infiltrated computer systems to gain access to crucial information from Brazil´s biggest companies, such as Petrobras, government officials, diplomats, and even to President Dilma Rousseff´s mobile phone. In this ebook, José Casado goes deeper into the process and tells the story of the American intrusion from its origins. It is a rivetting account, full of surprising details. This ebook also brings articles by O Globo´s correspondents in the US and in Europe, drawing a bigger picture of the impact of Snowden´s revelations.

Author : Abraham F. Lowenthal
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 081570562X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shifting the Balance written by Abraham F. Lowenthal and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the successful and unsuccessful approaches to rapprochement between the United States and various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean after the first year of the Obama administration against a background of initial optimism giving way to both U.S. and Latin American domestic political realities"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Conor Foley
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 168219213X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Spite of You written by Conor Foley and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2018 Brazilians elected Jair Bolsonaro as their new president. A former army officer who served under the military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has spent his political career campaigning against democracy and human rights. His notoriety comes from his repeated racist, sexist and homophobic statements and his defense of torture, extra-judicial executions and impunity for Brazil´s security forces. Bolsonaro is sometimes described as a “Tropical Trump.” But this wording greatly underestimates the threat that he poses to Brazil´s still young and fragile democratic institutions. In Spite of You brings together voices of the new Brazilian resistance. It includes chapters by Dilma Rousseff, former president of Brazil, political prisoner and torture survivor; Fernando Haddad, former minister for education and mayor of São Paulo, who was defeated by Bolsonaro in the 2018 election; and Eugenio Aragão, former minister for justice in President Dilma´s last government. It also gives a voice to feminists, environmentalists, land rights activists and human rights defenders, explaining the background to Bolsonaro´s election and setting out a manifesto for reviving democracy in Brazil. Contributors: Eugenio Aragão, Rubens Casara, Sérgio Costa, Vanessa Maria de Castro, Fabio de Sá e Silva, Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva, Paulo Esteves, Conor Foley, Gláucia Foley, Fernando Haddad, Monica Herz, Fiona Macaulay, Renata Motta, Dilma Rousseff and Márcia Tiburi. Conor Foley is a Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and has worked on legal reform, human rights and protection issues in over thirty conflict zones. His previous books include, Protecting Brazilians Against Torture, Another System Is Possible and The Thin Blue Line.

Author : John D. French
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469655772
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lula and His Politics of Cunning written by John D. French and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to union leadership, helped end a military dictatorship—and in 2003 became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. During his administration, Lula led his country through reforms that lifted tens of millions out of poverty. Here, John D. French, one of the foremost historians of Brazil, provides the first critical biography of the leader whom even his political opponents see as strikingly charismatic, humorous, and endearing. Interweaving an intimate and colorful story of Lula's life—his love for home, soccer, factory floor, and union hall—with an analysis of large-scale forces, French argues that Lula was uniquely equipped to influence the authoritarian structures of power in this developing nation. His cunning capacity to speak with, not at, people and to create shared political meaning was fundamental to his political triumphs. After Lula left office, his opponents convicted and incarcerated him on charges of money laundering and corruption—but his immense army of voters celebrated his recent release from jail, insisting that he is the victim of a right-wing political ambush. The story of Lula is not over.

Author : Nora Görne
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656310165
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dilma Rousseff and the World: A Review of Her Diplomatic Strategy written by Nora Görne and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Region: Middle and South America, grade: 7.5, University of Amsterdam (CEDLA), course: Brazil: Democracy, Citizenship and Sustainable Development, language: English, abstract: Since almost 19 months, Brazil has a new president: Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to take office and the first time that the president is not a candidate from the opposition to the former government. Her success is mainly attributed to the fact that Dilma, Lula da Silva’s former cabinet chef, was advertised as “candidate of the Lulism” (de Carvalho Cruz Pires, 2011, p. 1) who could not run a third consecutive time himself due to legislation (“Lula da Silva”, 2011). Reports supposed first that Dilma would merely be an “interim president” till Lula could run again for elections in 2014 (Souza, 2011, p. 87). But soon, Dilma reached popularity rates of 77% which is even higher than the rates of Lula in his second year of presidency (Comenalli, 2012) who once has been called “the most popular politician on earth” by Barack Obama (“Obama: Lula is”, 2009). Even though several reports point out that while essentially sticking to the main points of her predecessor (Sader 2011, Löwy 2012) Dilma managed to step out of Lula’s shadow (Bryson 2011). However, a thorough analysis of her first 19 months is still missing. By examining her stand to various global issues and her diplomatic strategy, the following will discuss Dilma's role in foreign affairs, especially her standpoint in comparison to her predecessor Lula. The retrospective on Lula is especially important when considering the statement of Richard Bourne who points out that in the presidential constitutional republic of Brazil, its citizens align themselves much more with a candidate than with a party (2008, p.213). Before going into achievements and plans in foreign policy, a short historical overview of Dilma's political career and her visions, both nationally and internationally, will be given. Neither the comparison nor the review of Dilma's foreign policy agenda is meant to be all-encompassing but should rather be seen as an exploration of Dilma's first 19 months as President with the aim to answer the question what other nations can expect from Dilma for the rest of her term.

Author : Ted G. Goertzel
Publisher : Brown Walker Press
ISBN 13 : 9781612335056
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil's Lula written by Ted G. Goertzel and published by Brown Walker Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a shack in the Brazilian northeast by a single mother, Lula da Silva rose from a working-class background to become a union leader, organizer of Brazil's Workers' Party, and in time, the most popular president of Brazil. In admiration, Barack Obama called Lula "the most popular politician on Earth"-perhaps a fitting title for the man who finished eight years as Brazil's president with popularity ratings above 80%. As president, he rose above ideology to build his country's self-esteem with a growing economy and relief from poverty. This is the first full biography of a democratic leader whose remarkable success will be an inspiration for decades to come. Spanning his childhood, his years in the labor movement, his four campaigns for the presidency, his two presidential terms and the election of his successor, Dilma Rousseff, this volume focuses on Lula as a personality and explores his impact on Brazilian society. Elected on an ill-defined platform of "change," Lula's inaugural address promised that hope had conquered fear and that it was time for Brazil to blaze a new path. However, he understood that what most Brazilians really wanted was relief from stressful and demanding changes. Drawing strength from his mother's courage, optimism, and religious faith, Lula forged a new leadership style contrasting sharply with that of populist Latin American leaders who aggravate social class and international conflicts. Lula offers a model of leadership for an age when democratic revolutions sweep the globe and presidents-for-life are thrown out of office in disgrace. Despite his overwhelming popularity, Lula refused to allow his supporters to advocate amending the Brazilian constitution to allow him a third term as president. His biography is essential reading for anyone concerned with building democratic order in a developing society.

Author : Tim Pfefferle
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656637970
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book US Foreign Policy in Latin America Under the Obama Administration written by Tim Pfefferle and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Middle- and South America, grade: 65, Queen Mary University of London (School of Politics and International Relations), course: Latin American Politics, language: English, abstract: This essay analyzes the conduct of US foreign policy towards Latin America under President Obama from three perspectives. First, the ideologic dimensions will be covered through an analysis of Cuba policy under the Obama administration. Secondly, security policy will be analyzed with an investigation of relations with Mexico and Colombia. Lastly, the essay will cover the Obama administration's position vis-a-vis neoliberal economic policies in Latin America.