Brazil On The Move

Author : John Dos Passos
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307800547
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil on the Move written by John Dos Passos and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dos Passos, the distinguished American novelist and historian has been personally interested in Brazil for the last fifteen years. He first visited the country in 1948, and returned again in 1956 and 1962. This book, which is based on his experiences in Brazil, presents the people and landscapes of a young country on the move. Here you will find several extraordinary reports on Brasilia, first in the planning stage, second in the wildly frantic period when it was a half-finished group of buildings, and, finally, as it appeared to Mr. Dos Passos in the summer of 1962 when it was at last beginning to function as a city. Here, too, is the story of Brazil’s great road building program designed to unify the country, and of the political battles in this enormous country which totters on the verge of a Communist takeover. From traveling the length and breadth of the land and from interviewing all kinds of people: politicians like Carlos Lacerda and religious leaders like Bishop Sales, Mr. Dos Passos has been able to transmit some of the flavor of the most important of Latin American nations. Mr. Dos Passos himself is of Portuguese descent, and he speaks Portuguese as well as Spanish. He begins this readable and fascinating book with a much needed short sketch of the history of Brazil and how the Portuguese tradition differs from the Spanish in South America.

Author : Tiffany D. Joseph
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804794391
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race on the Move written by Tiffany D. Joseph and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for its overt social exclusion of nonwhites. Yet, given the growing Latino and multiracial populations in the United States, the use of quotas to address racial inequality in Brazil, and the flows of people between each country, contemporary race relations in each place are starting to resemble each other. Tiffany Joseph interviewed residents of Governador Valadares, Brazil's largest immigrant-sending city to the U.S., to ask how their immigrant experiences have transformed local racial understandings. Joseph identifies and examines a phenomenon—the transnational racial optic—through which migrants develop and ascribe social meaning to race in one country, incorporating conceptions of race from another. Analyzing the bi-directional exchange of racial ideals through the experiences of migrants, Race on the Move offers an innovative framework for understanding how race can be remade in immigrant-sending communities.

Author : Sari Kola and Kim Nystrom
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450052193
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Panamaris Move to Brazil written by Sari Kola and Kim Nystrom and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story about the Panamari family. The Panamaris are Papi, Mami, Kira, the twins Mila and Milo, and Kila the pet jaguar. They are about to move to Brazil. Discover what makes this such a wonderful and inspirational family and how they are planning to make the world better, one step at a time! What they really want is to change the world. One step at a time. Are you ready for an adventure with them? Find out even more at www.panamari.com!

Author : Thomas E. Skidmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195374551
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil written by Thomas E. Skidmore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition offers an unparallelled look at Brazil in the twentieth century, including in-depth coverage of the 1930 revolution and Vargas's rise to power; the ensuing unstable democratic period and the military coups that followed; and the reemergence of democracy in 1985. It concludes with the recent presidency of Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, covering such economic successes as record-setting exports, dramatic foreign debt reduction, and improved income distribution. The second edition features numerous new images and a new bibliographic guide to recent works on Brazilian history for use by both instructors and students. Informed by the most recent scholarship available, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, Second Edition, explores the country's many blessings--ethnic diversity, racial democracy, a vibrant cultural life, and a wealth of natural resources.

Author : Michael Sommers
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1612383629
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moon Living Abroad in Brazil written by Michael Sommers and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Sommers is an expert on Brazilian life—he's lived there for 13 years. In Moon Living Abroad in Brazil, he provides firsthand tips on everything from climate to culture, all in an easy-to-understand manner. Moon Living Abroad in Brazil is packed with essential information and must-have details on setting up daily life, including obtaining visas, arranging finances, gaining employment, choosing schools, and finding health care—plus practical suggestions for how to rent or buy a home for a variety of needs and budgets, whether you're moving to a metropolis or a more rural location. With color and black and white photos, illustrations, and maps to help you find your way, Moon Living Abroad in Brazil will help you tackle the big move with confidence. This ebook and its features are best experienced on iOS or Android devices and the Kindle Fire.

Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299131043
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacks & Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988 written by George Reid Andrews and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Buried Indians, Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and interaction - past and present - between the white and Indian inhabitants of this Midwestern town. McMillin's account, rich in detail and sensitive to current political issues of American Indian interactions with the dominant European American culture, locates two opposing views: one that denies a Native American presence outright and one that asserts its long history and ruthless destruction. The highly reflective oral histories McMillin includes turn Buried Indians into an accessible, readable portrait of a uniquely American culture clash and a dramatic narrative grounded in people's genuine perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.

Author : Alexander Dent
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391090
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River of Tears written by Alexander Dent and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called música caipira, heralded as música sertaneja’s ancestor, also took shape. And all the while, large numbers of Brazilians in the central-south were moving to cities, using music to support the claim that their Brazil was first and foremost a rural nation. Since 1998, Alexander Sebastian Dent has analyzed rural music in the state of São Paulo, interviewing and spending time with listeners, musicians, songwriters, journalists, record-company owners, and radio hosts. Dent not only describes the production and reception of this music, he also explains why the genre experienced such tremendous growth as Brazil transitioned from an era of dictatorship to a period of intense neoliberal reform. Dent argues that rural genres reflect a widespread anxiety that change has been too radical and has come too fast. In defining their music as rural, Brazil’s country musicians—whose work circulates largely in cities—are criticizing an increasingly inescapable urban life characterized by suppressed emotions and an inattentiveness to the past. Their performances evoke a river of tears flowing through a landscape of loss—of love, of life in the countryside, and of man’s connections to the natural world.

Author : Viola Eduardo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351589709
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil and Climate Change written by Viola Eduardo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience. As the problem worsens, the cooperative dilemma that the issue carries has become evident: climate change is a complex problem that systematically gets insufficient answers from the international system. This book offers an assessment of Brazil’s role in the global political economy of climate change. The authors, Eduardo Viola and Matías Franchini expertly review and answer the most common and widely cited questions on whether and in which way Brazil is aggravating or mitigating the climate crisis, including:?Is it the benign, cooperative, environmental power that the Brazilian government claims it is? Why was it possible to dramatically reduce deforestation in the Amazon (2005-2010) and, more recently, was there a partial reversion?? The book provides an accessible—and much needed—introduction to all those studying the challenges of the international system in the Anthropocene. Through a thorough analysis of Brazil in perspective vis a vis other emerging countries, this book provides an engaging introduction and up to date assessment of the climate reality of Brazil and a framework to analyze the climate performance of major economies, both on emission trajectory and policy profile: the climate commitment approach. Brazil and Climate Change is essential reading for all students of Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, International Relations and Comparative Politics.

Author : Keith A Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964195110
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Do Men Go To Brazil For Love? written by Keith A Lane and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Do Men Go To Brazil For Love?, a thriller, romance, and thought-provoking, daring read that challenges readers to look beyond the prism of their everyday lives. Why Do Men Go To Brazil For Love? dives deep under the beach parties and beautiful women, showcasing a side of Brazil that's not normally discussed.

Author : Jeff Garmany
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351708295
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Contemporary Brazil written by Jeff Garmany and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil has famously been called a country of contradictions. It is a place where narratives of "racial democracy" exist in the face of stark inequalities, and where the natural environment is celebrated as a point of national pride, but at the same time is exploited at alarming rates. To people on the outside looking in, these contradictions seem hard to explain. Understanding Contemporary Brazil tackles these problems head-on, providing the perfect critical introduction to Brazil's ongoing social, political, economic, and cultural complexities. Key topics include: • National identity and political structure. • Economic development, environmental contexts, and social policy. • Urban issues and public security. • Debates over culture, race, gender, and spirituality. • Social inequality, protest, and social movements. • Foreign diplomacy and international engagement. By considering more broadly the historical, political economic, and socio-cultural roots of Brazil’s internal dynamics, this interdisciplinary book equips readers with the contextual understanding and critical insight necessary to explore this fascinating country. Written by renowned authors at one of the world's most important centers for the study of Brazil, Understanding Contemporary Brazil is ideal for university students and researchers, yet also accessible to any reader looking to learn more about one of the world's largest and most significant countries.