Associate Professor of History and Portuguese; Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
She, Her, Hers
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Portuguese; Faculty; Graduate Program; Romance Languages & Literatures
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Ph.D. Yale University, 2004The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics
From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of the best-selling Brazil Reader dives deep into the past and present of a country marked by its geographical vastness and cultural, ethnic, and environmental diversity. Containing over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first...
See MoreSpeaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil
Victoria Langland
Speaking of Flowers is an innovative study of student activism during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–85) and an examination of the very notion of student activism, which changed dramatically in response to the student protests of 1968. Looking into what made students engage in national political affairs as students, rather than through other means, Victoria Langland traces a gradual, uneven shift in how they constructed, defended, and redefined their right to political participation, from emphasizing class, race, and gender privileges to organizing around other institutional and symbolic...
See MoreMonumentos, memoriales y marcas territoriales
Victoria Langland, Elizabeth Jelin (Editors)
COLECCION MEMORIAS DE LA REPRESION. VOLUMEN 5
INDICE
Prólogo
Introducción: Las marcas territoriales como nexo entre pasado y presente, Elizabeth Jelin y Victoria Langland
El monumento a Salvador Allende en el debate político chileno, Katherine Hite
La casa de la memoria en Praia de Flamengo 132: memorias estudiantiles y nacionales en Brasil, 1964-1980, Victoria Langland
El Parque de la Memoria en Buenos Aires, Patricia Tappatá Valdez
El monumento para no olvidar: Tortura Nunca Mais en Recife, Valdenia Brito
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