Brazil

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/16/2020
  

  Where Conspiracy Reigns

  Historians Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta and Federico Finchelstein offer insight into how the political right has used rumors of communist plots to maintain power in Brazil, and why the country's political culture today is vulnerable to fake news and conspiracy theories. 

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• SOURCE: Environmental History Now
  9/8/2020
  

  Historical Black Lives Matter: What A Single Story Can Reveal About People & Landscapes

  by Natascha Otoya

  A primary document from the developing Brazilian oil industry demonstrates that the country's transition from slavery to "free labor" was anything but clear-cut. 

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• 5/24/2020
  

  Honor the Work of Brazil's Villas-Bôas Brothers by Protecting the Amazon's Indigenous

  by John Hemming

  The Villas-Bôas brothers worked with Brazil's indigenous people to balance the preservation of their Amazonian lands with inclusion in modernizing society. The policies of Jair Bolsonaro are a dire threat to their work, the survival of indigenous peoples, and the planet.

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• SOURCE: Origins
  November
  

  The Amazon Rainforest under Threat

  by Stanley E. Blake

  Historian Stanley Blake sketches the long struggle over the Amazon between indigenous peoples and those Brazilians who see it as the key to Brazil's economic future.

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• SOURCE: Time
  8/23/19
  

  Environmentalists Have Been Warning About Amazon Fires for Decades.

  The climate change that TIME in the 1980s warned might be possible has already come to pass, and the damage it causes is starkly plain.

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• 6/16/19
  

  Why is Brazil so American?

  by Marcos Sorrilha Pinheiro

  Given Brazil's history, it is fully understandable that its current president, a retired military man from the Brazilian middle class, has a genuine admiration for Trump and his followers. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/6/19
  

  Brazil’s long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension

  by Jordan Brasher

  How did an American debate about racism make its way to Brazil? 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/12/19
  

  Bolsonaro Takes Aim at Brazil’s History

  Historical revisionism is emerging as a core obsession of the Bolsonaro administration and, according to the president’s critics, one of its most worrying.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  4/16/19
  

  Natural History Museum Will Not Host Gala for Brazil’s President

  The museum drew heavy criticism for agreeing to host a ceremony at which Mr Bolsonaro, who has advocated relaxing environmental policies, was scheduled to receive a person of the year award.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/27/19
  

  The grim history that Brazil’s president wants to celebrate

  Last week, it emerged that the Brazilian president had ordered the country’s Defense Ministry to “carry out appropriate commemorations related to March 31, 1964.” 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/7/19
  

  Brazilian Politics and the Rise of the Far-Right

  by Daniela Gomes

  What history can teach us about the election of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. 

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• SOURCE: Yale University
  10-15-18
  

  The 2018 Presidential Elections and Brazil’s Slave Past

  by Isadora Moura Mota

  Bolsonaro has argued that Brazil “owes no debt” to its black citizens for Africans themselves “handed over the slaves” to human traffickers.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-13-18
  

  Loss of Indigenous Works in Brazil Museum Fire Felt ‘Like a New Genocide’

  The destruction of indigenous artifacts and documents was a personal blow for the descendants of Brazil’s oldest inhabitants, who had long fought to preserve their heritage.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-2-18
  

  Fire at Brazil’s National Museum Threatens Hundreds of Years of History

  The destruction to the building was significant, and it is unclear whether any historical artifacts had been saved. The museum housed a collection of more than 20 million items.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  6-27-18
  

  The Morbid Discovery That Led to Rio’s Only Slavery Museum

  More than 1.9 million enslaved Africans arrived in Rio de Janeiro, and thousands of them died upon arrival. One woman has made it her mission to remember them.

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• 7/22/18
  

  Want to Understand American Slavery?

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  As this historian discovered, it helps to visit Brazil and see how slavery developed there.

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• SOURCE: PBS Newshour
  3-31-18
  

  New Asian-American, Brazilian apostles make Mormon history

  The Mormon church made history and injected diversity into a top leadership panel on Saturday by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry.

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• SOURCE: Deutsche Welle
  2-7-18
  

  Brazilians struggle over reparations from slavery era

  Across Brazil, there are more than 3,000 quilombos — communities of descendants of slaves — that face continued attacks. A Supreme Court case could now invalidate their right to land.

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• SOURCE: VOA
  12-14-17
  

  VW: Some Employees Cooperated With Brazil's Military Dictatorship

  Volkswagen says a study has revealed that security guards at its operation in Brazil cooperated with the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship.

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• SOURCE: Times Live
  7-24-17
  

  Volkswagen aided Brazil dictatorship's repression

  German car giant Volkswagen aided Brazil's 1964-85 military government in identifying and persecuting political dissenters among its workforce in the country.