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Shining a light on a country where the commingling of cultures has created a people who are unafraid to embrace life. Just a few of the many stories and notable authors readers will find in this book are “A Place for Living” by Bill McKibben, “Opium of the People” by Alma Guillermoprieto, “On the Banks of the Solimoes” by Joe Kane, and many more.
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Set against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty, Brazil’s striking modernist architecture has long garnered international acclaim. But these well-known works are not fully reflective of the built environment of Brazil, and with this volume, Richard Williams unearths the rich architectural heritage of Brazil.
Spanning from 1945 through today, the book examines Brazilian architecture beyond the works of renowned architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and the “Carioca” architects of Rio de Janeiro. Williams investigates issues such as the use of historic architecture, the importance of leisure and luxury, the role of the favela as a backdrop and inspiration for development, and the rapid growth of cities. From the designated world heritage site of Brasilia—a capital city that was planned from the ground up—to the installation work of artists such as Hélio Oiticica, Brazil delves into the origins and far-reaching influence of Brazil’s architectural modernism.
At a moment when Latin America is of increasing importance in global business and culture, Brazil will be an essential read for all scholars of architecture and Latin American history.
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Brazil: Modern Architectures in History
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This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation.
More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that fair-skinned Brazilians continue to be privileged and hold a disproportionate share of wealth and power.
In this sociological and demographic study, Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations. He shows that both schools have it partly right–that there is far more miscegenation in Brazil than in the United States–but that exclusion remains a serious problem. He blends his demographic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, history, and political theory to try to “understand” the enigma of Brazilian race relations–how inclusiveness can coexist with exclusiveness.
The book also seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations. In the end, Telles contends, the traditional myth that Brazil had harmonious race relations compared with the United States encouraged the government to do almost nothing to address its shortcomings.
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Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
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In the history of post-colonial Latin America no person has held power so firmly and for so long as did Pedro II as emperor of Brazil. This is the first full-length biography in 60 years, and the first in any language to make close use of Pedro II’s diaries and family papers.
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Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891
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The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil
Amy Nunn, Center for AIDS Research, Brown University Medical School, Providence
In 1992, the World Bank warned that Brazil would face enormous challenges confronting the AIDS crisis, and forecast that Brazil would have 1.2 million people living with HIV by the year 2000. Today, AIDS prevalence in Brazil is approximately 660,000, and Brazil is home to the oldest and one of the largest public AIDS treatment programs in the developing world. Challenging the conventional wisdom that AIDS treatment was infeasible in developing countries, Brazil has halved AIDS-related deaths and dramatically reduced AIDS-related morbidity. Today, Brazil’s AIDS program is considered a global model.
The first book to narrate Brazil’s complex and inspiring history, The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil traces development of Brazil’s AIDS treatment policies during the country’s tumultuous path to democracy as its government redefined access to health care as a basic right. Meticulously researched, and drawing on dozens of interviews with politicians, activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, pharmaceutical executives and health care providers, this profound volume explains the key role of Brazil in raising global AIDS consciousness. The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil also explores the global implications of Brazil’s program and identifies the challenges ahead for addressing HIV/AIDS in the developing world.
In clear, accessible detail, The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil examines:
The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil contains invaluable lessons for readers across disciplines, particularly researchers and practitioners in health policy, global health, HIV/AIDS, political science, and Latin American studies.
“This is an exceptional academic work, one that deserves to be widely read, and that in my opinion will come to be considered the leading historical study on the social and policy response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Brazil – and one of the major policy studies on the response to the AIDS epidemic anywhere in the world.”
Richard Parker, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
With foreword by former Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso.
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The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil
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Hospitals are a critical component of the health care provided to many Brazilians. Hospitals which absorb nearly 70 percent of public spending on health are also a critical component of the government s budget, and are thus at the forefront of policy discussions. Why hospitals are important in Brazil is easy to understand. What makes hospitals deliver quality care efficiently or not is much harder to grasp. Drawing on an eclectic array of research and evaluative studies selected from a mix of sources, Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence analyzes Brazilian hospital performance along several policy dimensions, including resource allocation and use, payment mechanisms, organizational and governance arrangements, management practices, and regulation and quality. Although a few Brazilian hospitals are world-class centers of excellence, many hospitals, including those who serve Brazil s poorest people, are low performers. Yet the Brazilian hospital system is both dynamic and pluralistic, and herein lies is strength. As is shown throughout the book, the foundations for change approaches, ideas, innovations, and initiatives for addressing the shortcoming of underperforming facilities are already present throughout the country s hospital system. Building on these strengths, the authors propose a policy- and practice-based hospital reform agenda that should assist policy makers and practitioners in their search for excellence .
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Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence
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Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The chapters cover early Portuguese settlement, political and economic structures, plantations and slavery, the gold rushes, the impact of colonial rule on Indian societies, imperial reorganization in the eighteenth century, and demographic and economic change during the final decades of the empire.
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This book is a succinct overview of the history of US-Brazilian relations over the past two decades.
Monica Hirst considers economic relations between the two countries, presenting pertinent statistical information and detailing key economic policy disputes between the two governments (as well as the ongoing negotiations regarding a free trade agreement for the Americas). The book also looks at political issues such as military cooperation, nuclear energy, human rights and democracy, migration, the relative influence of both governments elsewhere in South America, relations in the context of multilateral organizations, drug trafficking, terrorism and the January 2003 transition from the Cardoso to the Lula presidency. It concludes with an essay that situates US-Brazilian relations in a broader analytical and comparative framework.
The United States and Brazil will be of interest to students and scholars of economics, geography and politics and international relations in general.
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The United States and Brazil: A Long Road of Unmet Expectations
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With a critical, witty, and cosmopolitan viewpoint, this guide to South America’s largest country covers not only the renowned Rio de Janeiro and its famous Carnaval, but also areas virtually unknown to the English-speaking world, including Salvador, Pipa, Buzios, Minas Gerais, and Paraty. Those who are timid about journeying through this island of Portuguese and little English will find will quickly find themselves trying to samba, listening to Marisa Monte, mixing a caipirinha, and saying tudo bem by the end of the first chapter.
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River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil and least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s Central-Southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called música caipira, heralded as música sertaneja’s ancestor, also took shape. And all the while, large numbers of Brazilians in the Central-South were moving to cities, using music to support their claim that their Brazil was first and foremost a rural nation.
Since 1998, Alexander Sebastian Dent has analyzed rural music in the state of São Paulo, interviewing and spending time with listeners, musicians, songwriters, journalists, record-company owners, and radio hosts. Dent not only describes the production and reception of this music. He also explains why the genre experienced such tremendous growth as Brazil transitioned from dictatorship to a period of intense neoliberal reform. Dent argues that rural genres reflect a widespread anxiety that change has been too radical and too fast. In defining their music as rural, Brazil’s country musicians–whose work circulates largely in cities–mean that their songs criticize an increasingly inescapable urban life characterized by suppressed emotions and an inattentiveness to the past. Their performances evoke a river of tears flowing through a landscape of loss–of love, of life in the countryside, and of man’s connections to the natural world.
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River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
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