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best-selling Brazilian writer Itamar Vieira Júnior sat down with Fernanda Canofre of Global Voices to talk about Brazil in and out of the battle to elect President Lula and preserve democracy. globalvoices.org/2022/11/03/val… Vieira's book Crooked Plow (Torto Arado) is Forthcoming from Verso

Doing some reporting on why Haitians love Brazilian soccer. It’s quite a deep, African connection that date back decades. Brazilian legend Pele had a huge impact on Haiti. Here are Haitians in Lake Worth, Florida, responding to Brazil scoring its 4th goal against South Korea

Just to register the first week of research at John Carter Brown Library

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“ain nunca vi ninguém escutando bad bunny” isso acontece porque você é uma vagabunda imperialista do caralho open.spotify.com/track/3k3NWokh…

What’s France’s longest border? With Spain? With Belgium? With Italy? Why not it’s with BRAZIL of course!!! A thread on the EU’s only South American border 🇧🇷🇫🇷 🧵

Insightful The Funambulist interview w/ Sammy Baloji on extractivism & epistemic geologies in🇨🇩 "I asked myself many questions about photography. Given how it emerged with this colonial & extractive reality, how can I transcend or distort this? ... " 1/2 thefunambulist.net/magazine/decol…

Unfortunately this is a serious problem in different Public Archives in Brazil. As Tiago said it's urgent to pay closer attention to these patrimonies for material and immaterial culture of Brazil and the Atlantic World.

Historians are searching for the remnants of a secret fortress near Savannah, Georgia, that was built in the 1780s by Maroons—people who had escaped slavery to live in the wilderness They lived in it for years until white militias burned it to the ground newyorker.com/culture/annals…

Enriching conversation with Owen McDonald, Erika Vieira, Manoel Rendeiro Neto, and adrián lerner at #brasa2024 about Amazon history! It was great meeting you all San Diego State University . Representing Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science and VandyAnthro

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Next week at Duke’s Amazon Lab, some of my favorite folks and ideas Franklin Humanities Institute

Tomorrow at UC Davis. Please join UC faculty, students, and peers in the quad for a day of speech and solidarity! May Day for Palestine, MU Quad, 11am-5pm be there or be square.