On 6 June, nine days before the Confederations Cup was due to kick off in Brasilia, the first of a series of public protests-'manifestações'began in São Paulo (figure 1). They quickly swept across Brazil, rippling through at least 70 cities, including Rio
This essay outlines and analyses the spread of the coronavirus in Brazil. In doing so it explores how the pandemic, whilst initially brought into the country by the wealthy elite, has predominantly affected the country’s poor, revealing structural inequalities that encompass class, race and ethnic differences, in which the poor are not afforded the right to live. It additionally examines the response to COVID-19 by the country’s far right president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, looking at how his laissez faire reaction to the virus builds on a history of violence against the marginalized, especially to the country’s indigenous peoples, that has not just excluded them from the nation state but at times actively and violently eradicated them.
This chapter presents an overview and critique of theories of Brazil’s cinematic belle epoque, which have depicted the early film period as a golden age of Brazilian filmmaking in contrast to later decades that were dominated by Hollywood’s hegemony. The chapter shows how these utopian discourses regarding the belle epoque have obscured the cinematic period’s intrinsic link to Rio de Janeiro and its modernizing reforms, reforms that were inextricably linked to the development and expansion of global capitalism.
Angeles welcomed Portuguese writer cind Nobel Lauréate José Saramago to the UCLA campus for a series of public events held on April 22nd, 24th and 26th , 2002, at the Tom Bradley International Hall. The event was sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and was part of the Regents' lecturer series which invites interna tionally distinguished writers and scholars to UCLA.
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