Junto com Casa-Grande & Senzala e Ordem e Progresso este livro compõe a Introdução à História da Sociedade Patriarcal no Brasil. A exemplo de Casa-Grande, é "deslumbrante tanto para o olhar do analista da sociedade como para o apreciador da beleza da linguagem", escreve Basílio …
Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Brazilian mechanics with a thumbs-up before starting their engines. This sign soon replaced the Brazilian tradition of touching the e…
The author considers both the Good Neighbor Policy and broader cultural influences to argue against simplistic theories of U.S. cultural imperialism and exploitation. He shows that Brazilians actively interpreted, negotiated, and reconfigured U.S. culture in a process of cultura…
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely…