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Brazil

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List Published: 6/10/14


History

     General
     Colonial
     Independent Empire
     Early Republic and Vargas Dictatorship
     Post-Vargas Military Rule
     Democracy through Today

History: General

The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
Peter M. Beattie
ISBN-13: 9780822327332 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822327431 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2001

The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Robert M. Levine, John Crocitti, editors
ISBN-13: 9780822322580 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822322900 (paper)
Duke University Press, 1999

Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present
Darlene J. Sadlier
ISBN-13: 9780292718562 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292718579 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2008

Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, Second Edition
Thomas E. Skidmore
ISBN-13: 9780195374551 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2009

History: Colonial

Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil
Robert Edgar Conrad, editor author info
ISBN-13: 9780271013213 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1994

From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835-1900
Dale Torston Graden
ISBN-13: 9780826340511 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2006

'Licentious Liberty' in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region
Kathleen J. Higgins
ISBN-13: 9780271019109 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271032702 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1999
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The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America
Lyman L. Johnson, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
ISBN-13: 9780826319067 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 1998

Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America
Jane Landers , Barry Robinson, editors
ISBN-13: 9780826323972 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2006

Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900
Hal Langfur, editor
ISBN-13: 9780826338419 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2014

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822
Alida C. Metcalf
ISBN-13: 9780292706521 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2005

Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600
Alida C. Metcalf
ISBN-13: 9780292712768 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2005

Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade
Joseph C. Miller author info
ISBN-13: 9780299115609 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780299115630
University of Wisconsin Press, 1988

Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
Matthew Restall, editor
ISBN-13: 9780826324023 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780826324030 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2005

Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
ISBN-13: 9780826339041 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2011

Early Brazil: A Documentary Collection to 1700
Stuart B. Schwartz
ISBN-13: 9780521198332 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521124539 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2009

Hans Staden?s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
Hans Staden, Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier, translators
ISBN-13: 9780822342137 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822342311 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2008

History: Independent Empire

Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Zephyr Frank
ISBN-13: 9780826334114 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2004

A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
Laura Jarnagin
ISBN-13: 9780817316242 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780817357788 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780817380403
University of Alabama Press, 2008

History: Early Republic and Vargas Dictatorship

Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos
John Charles Chasteen
ISBN-13: 9780826315984 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 1995

The Formation of Souls: Imagery of the Republic in Brazil
José Murilo de Carvalho, Clifford E. Landers, translator
ISBN-13: 9780268035266 (paper)
University of Notre Dame Press, 2012

Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930
Todd A. Diacon
ISBN-13: 9780822332107 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822332497 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2004

Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935
John Dulles
ISBN-13: 9780292740761 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1973

Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader, Volume I: The Years 1914-1960
John W. F. Dulles
ISBN-13: 9780292723733 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1991

Sobral Pinto, “The Conscience of Brazil”: Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945)
John W. F. Dulles
ISBN-13: 9780292726291 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2002

In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region
Seth Garfield
ISBN-13: 9780822355717 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822355854 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2013

“Civilizing” Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930
Teresa Meade author info
ISBN-13: 9780271016078 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271028705 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1996

Tracks in the Amazon: The Day-to-Day Life of the Workers on the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad
Gary Neeleman, Rose Neeleman
ISBN-13: 9781607812753 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781607812760
University of Utah Press, 2013

Politics in Brazil 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy, 40 Anniversary Edition
Thomas E. Skidmore
ISBN-13: 9780195332698 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2007

The Seduction of Brazil: The Americanization of Brazil during World War II
Antonio Pedro Tota, Lorena B. Ellis, translator
ISBN-13: 9780292723528 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2009

The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964
Cliff Welch
ISBN-13: 9780271017884 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271017891 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1998

Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945
Daryle Williams
ISBN-13: 9780822327080 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822327196 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2001

A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt
James Woodard
ISBN-13: 9780822343462 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822343295 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2009

History: Post-Vargas Military Rule

Torture in Brazil: A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979, Secretly Prepared by the Archiodese of São Paulo
Archdiocese of São Paulo, Jaime Wright, translator
ISBN-13: 9780292704848 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1998

Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980
Jerry Dávila
ISBN-13: 9780822348672 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822348559 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2010

Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader, Volume II: The Years 1960-1977
John W. F. Dulles
ISBN-13: 9780292726567 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1996

Resisting Brazil's Military Regime: An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto
John W. F. Dulles
ISBN-13: 9780292726024 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2007

We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States
James Green
ISBN-13: 9780822347170 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822347354 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2010

Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil
Victoria Langland
ISBN-13: 9780822352983 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822353126 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2013

Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969
Ruth Leacock
ISBN-13: 9780873384018 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780873384025 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781612770321
Kent State University Press, 1990

Brazil and the Quiet Intervention, 1964
Phyllis R. Parker
ISBN-13: 9780292729506 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1979

The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954–2000
R.S. Rose
ISBN-13: 9780896802438 (paper)
Ohio University Press, 2005

A Mother?s Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Lina Sattamini, James Green, editor; Rex P. Nielson, translator
ISBN-13: 9780822347187 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822347361 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2010

History: Democracy through Today

Bounded Missions: Military Regimes and Democratization in the Southern Cone and Brazil
Craig L. Arceneaux author info
ISBN-13: 9780271021034 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271021041 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2001

Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil: Women, Urban Housing and Rural Movements
Michel Duquette, Maurillo de Lima Galdino, Chairman Levy
ISBN-13: 9780802039071 (cloth)
University of Toronto Press, 2005

The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization
Timothy J. Power
ISBN-13: 9780271020099 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271020105 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2000

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Politics

The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil
Jens Andermann
ISBN-13: 9780822959724 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007

Zero Hunger: Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil
Aaron Ansell
ISBN-13: 9781469613970 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Lessons from Latin America: Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development
Felipe Arocena, Kirk Bowman
ISBN-13: 9781442609471 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781442605497 (paper)
University of Toronto Press, August 2014

Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo K. Silva
ISBN-13: 9780804760553 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804760560 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780804777797
Stanford University Press, 2011

Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
James Holston
ISBN-13: 9780691142906 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2009

Democratic Brazil Revisited
Peter Kingstone, Timothy Power
ISBN-13: 9780822943549 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822960041 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008

Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Bryan McCann
ISBN-13: 9780822355236 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822355380 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2014

Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Gabriel Ondetti
ISBN-13: 9780271033532 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271033549 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2008

Corruption and Democracy in Brazil: The Struggle for Accountability
Timothy J. Power, Matthew M. Taylor, editors
ISBN-13: 9780268038946 (paper)
University of Notre Dame Press, 2011

Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability
Brian Wampler
ISBN-13: 9780271032528 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271032535 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2007

This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil
Wendy Wolford
ISBN-13: 9780822345220 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822345398 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2010

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Economy and Development

Taking the Wheel: Auto Parts Firms and the Political Economy of Industrialization in Brazil
Caren Addis
ISBN-13: 9780271018140 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271018157 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1999

Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food
Peter Andrée, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josée Massicotte, editors
ISBN-13: 9781442643758 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781442612280 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781442696877
University of Toronto Press, 2014

Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America
Mark S. Anner
ISBN-13: 9780801449598 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801476730 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 2011

Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
Amy Chazkel
ISBN-13: 9780822349730 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822349884 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2011

Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Vicente del Rio, William Siembieda, editors
ISBN-13: 9780813035369 (paper)
University Press of Florida, 2009

Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture
John D. French
ISBN-13: 9780807828571 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807855270 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860
Richard Graham
ISBN-13: 9780292722996 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292723269 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2010

Brazilians Working with Americans/Brasileiros que trabalham com americanos
Orlando R. Kelm, Mary E. Risner
ISBN-13: 9780292714731 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2006

Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil
Mary Lorena Kenny
ISBN-13: 9781442600843 (paper)
University of Toronto Press, 2007

Trade Negotiations in Agriculture: A Future Common Agenda for Brazil and Canada?
William Kerr, James Gaisford, editors
ISBN-13: 9781552381571 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781552384619
University of Calgary Press, 2005

Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferences, Political Institutions, and Neoliberal Reform in Brazil
Peter R. Kingstone author info
ISBN-13: 9780271019383 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271019390 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1999

Globalizing in Hard Times: The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
ISBN-13: 9780801447556 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 2009

Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain
Alfred P. Montero
ISBN-13: 9780271021898 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271025292 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2002

Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil
Maureen O?Dougherty
ISBN-13: 9780822328797 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822328940 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2002

Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil
Brian P. Owensby
ISBN-13: 9780804733601 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804743402 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 1999

Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Julyan G. Peard
ISBN-13: 9780822323761 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822323976 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2000

Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
ISBN-13: 9780816683239 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816683246 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2013

Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
Michael Reid
ISBN-13: 9780300165609 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2014

Social Movements and Free-Market Capitalism in Latin America: Telecommunications Privatization and the Rise of Consumer Protest
Sybil Rhodes
ISBN-13: 9780791465974 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791465981 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780791482582
State University of New York Press, 2005

The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
Thomas D. Rogers
ISBN-13: 9780807871676 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2010

A Space for Science: The Development of the Scientific Community in Brazil
Simon Schwartzman author info
ISBN-13: 9780271007403 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271026688 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1991

Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina
Kathryn Sikkink
ISBN-13: 9780801478673 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 1991

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Environment and Conservation

The Colonization of the Amazon
Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida
ISBN-13: 9780292755987 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1992

Implementation of Environmental Policies in Developing Countries: A Case of Protected Areas and Tourism in Brazil
José Antonio Puppim de Oliveira
ISBN-13: 9780791473252 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791473269 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2008

Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil
John A. Gwynne, Robert S. Ridgely, Guy Tudor, Martha Argel
ISBN-13: 9780801476464 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 2010

Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society
Kathryn Hochstetle, Margaret E. Keck
ISBN-13: 9780822340485 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822340317 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2007

The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna
Paulo S. Oliveira, Robert J. Marquis, editors
ISBN-13: 9780231120425 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231120432 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 2002

Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon
Gomercindo Rodrigues, Linda Rabben, editor and translator
ISBN-13: 9780292717060 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2007

Global Environmentalism and Local Politics: Transnational Advocacy Networks in Brazil, Ecuador, and India
Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues
ISBN-13: 9780791458785 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780791486177
State University of New York Press, 2003

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People and Society

     General
     Gender and Sexuality
     Race and Ethnicity
     Indigenous Brazil
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People and Society: General

Living in the Crossfire: Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Philip Evanson
ISBN-13: 9781439900031 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781439900048 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781439900055
Temple University Press, 2011

Almost Home: A Brazilian American's Reflections on Faith, Culture, and Immigration
H.B. Cavalcanti author info
ISBN-13: 9780299288945 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780299288938
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012

Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil
Alexander Edmonds
ISBN-13: 9780822347859 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822348016 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2010

Temples of the Earthbound Gods: Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
Christopher Thomas Gaffney
ISBN-13: 9780292721654 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2008

The Everyday Atlantic: Time, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in the Twentieth-Century Iberian and Latin American Newspaper Chronicle
Tania Gentic
ISBN-13: 9781438448596 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781438448589 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781438448602
State University of New York Press, 2013

Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown, With a New Preface
Donna Goldstein
ISBN-13: 9780520276048 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780520955417
University of California Press, 2013

Global Gangs: Street Violence across the World
Jennifer M. Hazen, Dennis Rodgers, editors
ISBN-13: 9780816691470 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816691494 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, August 2014

The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil
Roger Kittleson
ISBN-13: 9780520279087 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520279094 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780520958258
University of California Press, 2014

The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Robert Levine, José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy
ISBN-13: 9780826316486 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 1995

Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba
Maxine L. Margolis author info
ISBN-13: 9780299293048 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780299293031
University of Wisconsin Press, 2013

Communicating with Brazilians: When "Yes" Means "No"
Tracy Novinger, Donald Haughey, illustrator
ISBN-13: 9780292702875 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2004

Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro
Janice Perlman
ISBN-13: 9780195368369 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199836833 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2010

Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History
Gretchen Pierce, Áurea Toxqui, editors
ISBN-13: 9780816530762 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 2014

Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
João José Reis, H. Sabrina Gledhill, translator
ISBN-13: 9780807854457 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2003

The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil
Darcy Ribeiro
ISBN-13: 9780813017778 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2000

First Freire: Early Writings in Social Justice Education
Carlos Alberto Torres
ISBN-13: 9780807755341 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807755334 (paper)
Teachers College Press, 2014

People and Society: Gender and Sexuality

In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil
Sueann Caulfield
ISBN-13: 9780822323778 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822323983 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2000

Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
Rafael de la Dehesa
ISBN-13: 9780822347071 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822347248 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2010

Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman
Robert Gay
ISBN-13: 9781592133383 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592133390 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781592133406
Temple University Press, 2005

Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right
Victoria González-Rivera, Karen Kampwirth, editors
ISBN-13: 9780271021003 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271021010 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2001

Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil
James N. Green
ISBN-13: 9780226306384 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226306391 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 2000

The City of Women
Ruth Landes
ISBN-13: 9780826315564 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women's Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration
Jeffrey W. Rubin, Emma Sokoloff-Rubin
ISBN-13: 9780822354062 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822354215 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2013

Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas
Julie Shayne, editor author info
ISBN-13: 9781438452456 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781438452470
State University of New York Press, 2014

Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas
Vanessa K. Valdés author info
ISBN-13: 9781438450438 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781438450445
State University of New York Press, 2013

People and Society: Race and Ethnicity

Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy
Niyi Afolabi
ISBN-13: 9781580462624 (cloth)
University of Rochester Press, 2009

Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil 1888–1988
George Reid Andrews author info
ISBN-13: 9780299131043 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1991

Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
Stanley R. Bailey
ISBN-13: 9780804762779 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804762786 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780804776264
Stanford University Press, 2009

The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil
Stanley Blake
ISBN-13: 9780822961338 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011

Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?
G. Reginald Daniel author info
ISBN-13: 9780271028835 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271032887 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2006

Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945
Jerry Dávila
ISBN-13: 9780822330585 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822330707 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2003

In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil
Allan Charles Dawson
ISBN-13: 9781442649316 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781442626690 (paper)
University of Toronto Press, October 2014

Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Carl Degler
ISBN-10: 0299109143 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780299109141 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1986

Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast
Jan Hoffman French
ISBN-13: 9780807859513 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2009

African-American Reflections on Brazil's Racial Paradise
David J. Hellwig, editor
ISBN-13: 9780877228929 (cloth)
Temple University Press, 1992

Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil
John Tofik Karam
ISBN-13: 9781592135394 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592135400 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781592135417
Temple University Press, 2006

Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Elizabeth W. Kiddy
ISBN-13: 9780271026930 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271026947 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2005

A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980
Jeffrey Lesser
ISBN-13: 9780822340607 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822340812 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2007

Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil
Jeffrey Lesser
ISBN-13: 9780822322603 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822322924 (paper)
Duke University Press, 1999

Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Jeffrey Lesser, editor
ISBN-13: 9780822331124 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822331483 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2003

The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil
Elisa Larkin Nascimento
ISBN-13: 9781592133505 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592133512 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781592133529
Temple University Press, 2006

Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Patricia de Santana Pinho
ISBN-13: 9780822346548 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822346463 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2010

Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality
Rebecca Reichmann, editor author info
ISBN-13: 9780271019055 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271019062 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1999

Brazil's Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia
Anadelia A. Romo
ISBN-13: 9780807871157 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2010

"The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
Nancy Leys Stepan
ISBN-13: 9780801497957 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 1996

Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
Edward E. Telles
ISBN-13: 9780691127927 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781400837434
Princeton University Press, 2006

People and Society: Indigenous Brazil

The Last Cannibals: A South American Oral History
Ellen B. Basso
ISBN-13: 9780292708198 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1995

The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space
Janet M. Chernela
ISBN-13: 9780292711860 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1996

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988
Seth Garfield
ISBN-13: 9780822326618 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822326656 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2001

Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology
Lesley J. F. Green, David R. Green
ISBN-13: 9780816530373 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 2013

Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence
Tracy Devine Guzmán
ISBN-13: 9781469602097 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2013

Brazil's Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization: The Yanomami and the Kayapo
Linda Rabben
ISBN-13: 9780295983622 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2003

Indigenism: Ethnic Politics in Brazil
Alcida Rita Ramos
ISBN-13: 9780299160401 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780299160449 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1998

Sanumá Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis
Alcida Rita Ramos
ISBN-13: 9780299146504 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780299146542 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1995

Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Jonathan W. Warren
ISBN-13: 9780822327318 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822327417 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2001

Anthropologies of Guayana: Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia
Neil L. Whitehead, Stephanie W. Alemán, editors
ISBN-13: 9780816526079 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 2009

People and Society: Religion

Passion, Memory and Identity: Twentieth-Century Latin American Jewish Women Writers
Marjorie Agosín
ISBN-13: 9780826320490 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 1999

The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations
Roger Bastide, Helen Sebba, translator
ISBN-13: 9780801886249 (paper)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomblé
Stefania Capone, Stefania Capone Laffitte
ISBN-13: 9780822346258 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822346364 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2010

People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Jerry Dennis Metz, translator
ISBN-13: 9780822350231 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822350408 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2011

The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil
Laura de Mello e Souza, Diane Grosklaus Whitty, translator
ISBN-13: 9780292702363 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2004

Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews
David Gitlitz
ISBN-13: 9780826328137 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 1996

Hearing the Mermaid's Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro
Lindsay Hale
ISBN-13: 9780826347336 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2009

Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture
David J. Hess
ISBN-13: 9780271007243 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271033679 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1991

Spiritual Currency in Northeast Brazil
Lindsey King
ISBN-13: 9780826355317 (cloth)
University of New Mexico Press, December 2014

Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
Jeffrey Lesser, Raanan Rein, editors
ISBN-13: 9780826344014 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2008

Coping with Poverty: Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities in Brazil
Cecília Loreto Mariz
ISBN-13: 9781566391139 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1994

Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Carole A. Myscofski
ISBN-13: 9780292748538 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2013

The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation
Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba
ISBN-13: 9780826341037 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2009

Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture
Jacob K. Olupona, Terry Rey, editors author info
ISBN-13: 9780299224646 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 2008

The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil
Luis Nicolau Parés, Richard Vernon and Luis Nicolau Parés, translators
ISBN-13: 9780807833117 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781469610924 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2013

From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture
Patricia R. Pessar
ISBN-13: 9780822332756 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822332640 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2004

Eat Smart in Brazil: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure, Second Edition
Brook Soltvedt, editor
ISBN-13: 9780964116894 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
Robert A. Voeks
ISBN-13: 9780292787315 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1997

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Arts and Culture

     Music
     Film, Theater, and Performing Arts
     Visual Art
     Architecture
     Literature

Arts and Culture: Music

Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship
Idelber Avelar, Christopher Dunn
ISBN-13: 9780822348849 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822349068 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2011

The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil
John Burdick
ISBN-13: 9780814709221 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780814709238 (paper)
New York University Press, 2013

White Face, Black Mask: Africaneity and the Early Social History of Popular Music in Brazil
Darien J. Davis
ISBN-13: 9780870138348 (paper)
Michigan State University Press, 2009

River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
Alexander Dent
ISBN-13: 9780822345206 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822345374 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2009

Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
Marc A. Hertzman
ISBN-13: 9780822354154 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822354307 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2013

Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil
Bryan McCann
ISBN-13: 9780822332848 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822332732 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2004

The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil, Revised and Expanded Edition
Chris McGowan, Ricardo Pessanha
ISBN-13: 9781592139286 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592139293 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2008

Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene
Frederick Moehn
ISBN-13: 9780822351412 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822351559 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2012

Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
John P. Murphy
ISBN-13: 9780195166842 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2006

Arts and Culture: Film, Theater, and Performing Arts

Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil
Severino J. Albuquerque author info
ISBN-13: 9780299189242 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780299189235
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Popular cinema in Brazil
Stephanie Dennison, Lisa Shaw
ISBN-13: 9780719064999 (paper)
Manchester University Press, 2004

Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
David William Foster
ISBN-13: 9780292725102 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1999

Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism
Richard A. Gordon
ISBN-13: 9780292760974 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, January 2015

Latin American Women On/In Stages
Margo Milleret
ISBN-13: 9780791462218 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791462225 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780791484418
State University of New York Press, 2004

Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture
Robert Stam
ISBN-13: 9780822320357 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822320487 (paper)
Duke University Press, 1997

The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
Maya Talmon-Chvaicer
ISBN-13: 9780292717244 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2007

Arts and Culture: Visual Art

Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil
Rebecca J. Atencio author info
ISBN-13: 9780299297244 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780299297237
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014

Waltercio Caldas
Blanton Museum of Art
ISBN-13: 9780292753112 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2013

Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles
Claudia Calirman
ISBN-13: 9780822351399 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822351535 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2012

Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity
Kimberly L. Cleveland
ISBN-13: 9780813044767 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2013

Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil
Esther Gabara
ISBN-13: 9780822343400 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822343233 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2008

The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942
Robert M. Levine
ISBN-13: 9780822321606 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822321897 (paper)
Duke University Press, 1998

Black Milk: Imagining Slavery in the Visual Cultures of Brazil and America
Marcus Wood
ISBN-13: 9780199274574 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2013

Arts and Culture: Architecture

Lina Bo Bardi
Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima
ISBN-13: 9780300154269 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2013

The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil
Fernando Luiz Lara
ISBN-13: 9780813032894 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2008

Arts and Culture: Literature

Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga? A B-Novel
Caio Fernando Abreu, Adria Frizzi, translator
ISBN-13: 9780292705012 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2001

Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil
Nicholas Gabriel Arons
ISBN-13: 9780816524334 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816523306 (paper)
University of Arizona Press, 2004

Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing
Alan Astro, editor
ISBN-13: 9780826323484 (cloth)
University of New Mexico Press, 2003

Who if I Cry Out
Gustavo Corção, Clotilde Wilson, translator
ISBN-13: 9780292712522 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1967

Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist
G. Reginald Daniel author info
ISBN-13: 9780271052465 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780271052472 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2012

Senhora: Profile of a Woman
José de Alencar
ISBN-13: 9780292704503 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1994

The Devil's Church and Other Stories
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Jack Schmitt and Lorie Ishimatsu, translators
ISBN-13: 9780292715424 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1977

The Three Marias
Rachel de Queiroz
ISBN-13: 9780292780798 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1963

Hilda Hurricane: A Novel
Roberto Drummond, Peter Vaudry-Brown, translator
ISBN-13: 9780292721906 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292721913 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2010

Linking the Americas: Race, Hybrid Discourses, and the Reformulation of Feminine Identity
Lesley Feracho
ISBN-13: 9780791464038 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791464045 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780791483503
State University of New York Press, 2005

Folklore and Literature: Studies in the Portuguese, Brazilian, Sephardic, and Hispanic Oral Traditions
Manuel da Costa Fontes author info
ISBN-13: 9780791444917 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791444924 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2000

Family Ties
Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero, translator
ISBN-13: 9780292724488 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1984

The Carnivalesque Defunto: Death and the Dead in Modern Brazilian Literature
Robert H. Moser
ISBN-13: 9780896802582 (paper)
Ohio University Press, 2008

Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism
Charles A. Perrone
ISBN-13: 9780822318071 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822318149 (paper)
Duke University Press, 1996

Barren Lives
Graciliano Ramos
ISBN-13: 9780292701335 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1965

The Prophet and Other Stories
Samuel Rawet, Nelson Vieira, translator
ISBN-13: 9780826319524 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 1998

First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix
Regina Rheda
ISBN-13: 9780292706996 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2005

The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar
Moacyr Scliar, Eloah Giacomelli, translator
ISBN-13: 9780826319111 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780826319128 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 1999

Village of the Ghost Bells: Village of the Ghost Bells
Edla Van Steen
ISBN-13: 9780292730632 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1991

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Language

Portuguese: A Reference Manual
Sheila R. Ackerlind, Rebecca Jones-Kellogg
ISBN-13: 9780292726635 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292726734 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2011

Calunga and the Legacy of an African Language in Brazil
Steven Byrd
ISBN-13: 9780826350862 (cloth)
University of New Mexico Press, 2012

A Dictionary of Informal Brazilian Portuguese with English Index
Bobby John Chamberlain, Ronald M. Harmon, editors
ISBN-13: 9780878403448 (paper)
Georgetown University Press, 2003

Signed Language Interpreting in Brazil
Ronice Müller de Quadros, Earl Fleetwood, Melanie Metzger, editors
ISBN-13: 9781563685439 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781563685446
Gallaudet University Press, 2013

Working Portuguese for Beginners
Monica Rector, Regina Santos, Marcelo Amorim
ISBN-13: 9781589016385 (paper)
Georgetown University Press, 2010

Pois não: Brazilian Portuguese Course for Spanish Speakers, with Basic Reference Grammar
Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões
ISBN-13: 9780292717817 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2008

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Journals

Luso-Brazilian Review
Severino J. Albuquerque, Peter M. Beattie, Luís Madureira, Kathryn Sanchez, editors author info
E-ISSN: 15489957
ISSN: 00247413
University of Wisconsin Press,

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