Bøger om Brasilien

Rio de Janeiro, 2014. Med VM i fodbold og De Olympiske Lege lige om hjørnet er hele landet i en tilstand af eufori og håb. Júlia er en lovende ung arkitekt, der har ansvaret for at designe golfbanen i den kommende olympiske by. Den dag hun skal deltage i et vigtigt møde om projektet, tager hun en løbetur til udsigtspunktet Vista Chinesa i Tijuca-parken i byens udkant. Pludselig peger en mand på hende med en pistol og trækker hende ind i skoven, hvor han voldtager hende. Mange år senere beslutter hun sig for at skrive et brev til sine børn for at fortælle dem om denne oplevelse. Læseren følger Júlia på den lange vej, hun må gå for at overvinde oplevelsen: fra smerten og følelsen af skam og skyld gennem politiets efterforskning i et samfund, hvor fattigdom alene giver anledning til mistanke om skyld, til genvindingen af hendes krop og seksualitet. Med følsomhed, mod og sjælden litterær dygtighed giver forfatteren Júlia en stemme, mens hun genvinder sit selvværd. Med overvældende kraft er denne roman – baseret på en sand historie – blevet en af de mest læste og anerkendte i Brasilien i de senere år. “Det er ikke et let emne at skrive om, men Levy har klaret det. Resultatet er en umiddelbar og stærk roman, som bør give hendes talent større anerkendelse.” The Sunday Times

"The book is relevant to persons interested in public governance, comparative politics and the politics of Brazil, Russia, and the United States. It would also be accessible to Ph.D. and motivated upper-division students, and to practitioners. The arguments are presented rigorously, but also in a captivating manner"--

Análisis de las características de los movimientos feministas actuales en América Latina y sus respuestas a las reacciones conservadoras.

Brazils Black population, one of the oldest and largest in the Americas, mobilized a vibrant antiracism movement from grassroots origins when the country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy in the 1980s. Campaigning for political equality after centuries of deeply engrained racial hierarchies, African-descended groups have been working to unlock democratic spaces that were previously closed to them.Using the city of Salvador as a case study, Kwame Dixon tracks the emergence of Black civil society groups and their political projects: claiming new citizenship rights, testing new anti-discrimination and affirmative action measures, reclaiming rural and urban land, and increasing political representation. This book is one of the first to explore how Afro-Brazilians have influenced politics and democratic institutions in the contemporary period.Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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This anthology consists of academic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry and short stories on race and racism by black women from South Africa and Brazil.