The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Conquest and Colonial Rule, 1500–1579
	Letter to King Manuel I of Portugal
	Captaincy Charter Granted to Duarte Coelho
	Letter from a Jesuit Friar
	Impressions of a French Calvinist
	Indigenous Experiences of Colonization
	On Cannibals
	On the Customs of the Indians of the Land
	A Description of the Tupinambá
	History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
	Portraits: Hans Staden
II. Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580–1694
	Letter from a Portuguese Trader
	Exploration of the Amazon
	The Inquisition in Brazil
	Excerpts from the Sermon on the Rosary
	The Sugar Industry
	The Dutch Siege of Olinda and Recife
	An Eyewitness Account of the First Battle of Guararapes
	Two Documents in the War against Palmares
	Bandeirantes
	Portraits: Count Johan Maurits von Nassau-Seigen
III. Gold and the New Colonial Order, 1695–1807
	The Brazilian Gold Rush
	The Minas Uprising of 1720
	Expulsion of the Jesuits from Brazil
	Portugal, Brazil, and The Wealth of Nations
	Poems from Baroque Minas
	Tiradentes’s Sentence
	The Tailors’ Revolt
	Letter from a Sugar Mill Owner
	Portraits: Chica da Silva de Oliveira
IV. The Portuguese Royal Family in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821
	The Royal Family’s Journey to Brazil
	Letter from a Son in Brazil to His Father in Portugal
	Treaty between Portugal and Great Britain
	Rio de Janeiro’s First Medical School
	The Influence of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil
	Petition for Pedro I to Remain in Brazil
	Speech Given at the Cortes (National Assembly) of Lisbon
	Portraits: Empress Maria Leopoldina of Brazil
V. From Independence to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1822–1850
	On the Declaration of Brazilian Independence
	Acclamation of Pedro as Emperor of Brazil
	On Slavery
	From the Journal of Maria Graham
	Portugal Recognizes the Brazilian Empire
	The Malê Revolt
	How to Write the History of Brazil
	Scenes from the Slave Trade
	Cruelty to Slaves
	The Praieira Revolution Manifesto to the World
	Portraits: José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
VI. Coffee, the Empire, and Abolition, 1851–1888
	Memoirs of a Settler in Brazil
	O Guarani
	The U.S. Civil War and Slave Rebellions in Brazil
	The Slave Ship
	Victims and Executioners
	The Republican Manifesto
	Law of the Free Womb
	Early Brazilian Feminism
	Letters to the French Mineralogist Claude-Henri Gorceix
	Selections from Abolitionism
	A Critique of José de Alencar’s O Guarani
	Abolition Decree
	Portraits: Emperor Dom Pedro II
VII. Republican Brazil and the Onset of Modernization, 1889–1929
	Hymn of the Proclamation of the Republic
	The Human Races
	Os Sertões or Rebellion in the Backlands
	The Owner’s Pastry Shop
	Revolt of the Whip
	Three Types of Bureaucrats
	On the Mestizo in Brazil
	Demands of the São Paulo General Strike of 1917
	Brazil and World War I
	The Cannibalist Manifesto (Manifesto Antropófago)
	Macunaíma
	Revolutionary Manifestos from the Tenentes Revolts
	An Essay on Brazilian Sadness
	Portraits: Tarsila do Amaral
VIII. Getúlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930–1945
	From the Platform of the Liberal Alliance
	Prestes’s Declaration about the Liberal Alliance
	The Masters and the Slaves
	Speech by the First Woman Elected to Congress in Brazil
	Manifesto of the National Liberating Alliance
	The Cordial Man
	Vargas and the Estado Novo
	Rubber and the Allies’ War Effort
	Portraits: Patrícia Galvão (Pagú)
IX. Democratic Governance and Developmentalism, 1946–1964
	Telenovelas in Constructing the Country of the Future
	The Oil Is Ours
	An Unrelenting Critic of Vargas
	Vargas’s Suicide Letter
	The Life of a Factory Worker
	Operation Pan America
	Excerpts from Child of the Dark
	Education as a Practice of Freedom
	Letter of Manumission for the Brazilian Peasant
	Brazil’s New Foreign Policy
	Development and the Northeast
	President João Goulart’s Speech at Central do Brasil
	March of the Family with God for Freedom
	The U.S. Government and the 1964 Coup d’État
	Portraits: Oscar Niemeyer
X. The Generals in Power and the Fight for Democracy, 1964–1985
	Institutional Act No. 1
	A U.S. Senator Supports the New Military Government
	The Brazilian Revolution
	The Myth of Racial Democracy
	A Brazilian Congressional Representative Speaks Out
	Institutional Act No. 5
	Letter from the Ilha Grande Prison
	The Kidnapping of the U.S. Ambassador
	A Letter to Pope Paul VI
	Two Presidents at the White House
	National Security and the Araguaian Guerrillas
	What Color Are You?, National Household Sample Study, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
	Second-Wave Brazilian Feminism
	LGBT Rights and Democracy
	The Movement for Political Amnesty
	Lula’s May Day Speech to Brazilian Workers
	Portraits: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil
XI. Redemocratization and the New Global Economy, 1985–Present
	Forty Seconds of AIDS
	Affirmative Action in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
	A Young Voice from the MST
	World Social Forum Charter of Principles
	The Bolsa Família Program
	Music, Culture, and Globalization
	The Inaugural Speech of Brazil’s First Female President
	The June Revolts
	Portraits: Herbert Daniel
Suggestions for Further Reading
Brazil in the Movies
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources
Index
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