Green / Walkowitz We Cannot Remain Silent

Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9178-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 468 Seiten

Reihe: Radical Perspectives

A history of the U.S. grassroots campaign against torture in Brazil, and the ways those efforts helped to create a new discourse about human-rights violations in Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, James N.

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Tropical Delights and Torture Chambers, or Imagining Brazil in the United States

Prólogo "Era um país subdesenvolvido" 13

1. Revolution and Counterrevolution in Brazil 19

Capítulo I "A gente quer ter voz ativa" 49

2. The Birth of a Movement 55

Capítulo II "Caminhando e cantando e seguindo a canção" 77

3. The World Turned Upside Down 85

Capítulo III "Agora falando sério" 107

4. Defending Artistic and Academic Freedom 115

Capítulo IV "Acorda amor" 137

5. The Campaign against Torture 143

Capítulo V "Vai meu irmão" 167

6. Latin Americanists Take a Stand 177

Capítulo VI "Pode me prender, pode me bater" 197

7. Human Rights and the Organization of American States 201

Capítulo VII "Fado tropical" 225

8. Congressional Questioning 233

Capítulo VIII "While my eyes go looking for flying saucers in the sky" 255

9. Denouncing the Dictatorship 259

Capítulo IX "Navegar é preciso" 291

10. Performing Opposition 293

Capítulo X "Quem é essa mulhar" 315

11. The Slow-Motion Return to Democracy 321

Capítulo XI "Amanhã há de ser outro dia" 355

Conclusions: Making a Difference 359

Notes 367

Bibliography 411

Index 431

Über Autor(innen)

James N. Green is Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and past president of the Brazilian Studies Association. He is the editor of Lina Penna Sattamini’s A Mother’s Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil.