Brazil’s Dichotomous Treatment of Corruption – PT 2

After the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the Liberal Front Party (LFP), Democratic Social Party (PMDB) and Brazilian Social … More

Expatriates: Dilemmas and Misconceptions

Those who have chosen to become permanent expatriates at some time or another experience a very disturbing and confusing dilemma. … More

Recently, I came across an article in Lasa Forum Spring 2013 edition in which Edward Telles and Marcelo Paixão assessed … More

In 2012, Dr. Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School lectured at the David Rockefeller … More

When I first encountered Lévi-Strauss in graduate school, I thought the title of his monumental work sounded strange. At that … More

When I arrived in Brazil seven years ago as an American anthropologist seeking to discover if Brazil would be a … More

Although there is considerable literature on conditions of unemployment and poverty in many modernized countries, there is a penuriously small … More

There are many holidays celebrated in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. And on almost every occasion, you can see … More

This review is organized as a history of the diverse elements of scholarship by which the field of African Diaspora … More

Anyone that has traveled to Brazil can not help but be impressed with the warm, light- hearted, friendly spirit … More

One Sunday in February, 2008 when my wife and I were living in the bairro of Itapúa which is situated … More