Examining Racial Politics in Brazil: Race, Blackness, and Intellectual and Cultural flows between the United States and Brazil

Abstract

Examining Racial Politics in Brazil: Race, Blackness, and Intellectual and Cultural flows between the United States and Brazil Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, Denison University The Outsider-Within: Developing an Analytical Framework for Examining Brazilian Racial Politics Lucio Oliveira, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Black Music from Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian Dictatorship from 1976-1979 Fabricio Fialho , University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),The role of resources on political activism.and political activism in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Jaqueline Santos , Harvard University, Youth and Hip Hop This panel examines racial politics in Brazil focusing on the local impact of race in specific locales such as Belo Horizonte and the global impact of race and blackness. There have been continuous exchanges of Diasporic notions of blackness between the United States and Brazil in music as well as constant interactions between African descendants in both countries. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour focuses on the historical and contemporary intellectual flow of knowledge between African descendants in both countries and how these exchanges impact the study of racial politics in Brazil. Lucio Oliveira examines the role of American soul and funk music, which was listened to and transformed by African-descendants in Brazil during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Jaqueline Santos examines the Hip Hop movement in the United States and Brazil and how it has impacted black youth. Fabricio Fialho examines the role of race and resources on political activism in Belo Horizonte.