Brazil: Society, Culture, Media, Politics and Economics

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Heitor
Villa-Lobos Karita Mattila Aria from Bachianas
Brasileiras no. 5 http//www.youtube.com/watch?vu
Wd17zMvoO0
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Brazil A world within

Miguel López 2015 América Latina
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Brazil
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Portugal - Spain
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Treaties Treaty of Alcáçovas
1479 Portugal Azores, Madeira, Cape
Verde Castilla Canary Islands 1481
Portugal South Canary Islands ? Africa Inter
caetera 1493 Pope Alexander VI Treaty of
Tordesillas 1494 World Western part
exclusive to Spain and the east part to
Portugal.
Treaty of Zaragoza
1529 Asia
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Portugal- Vasco da Gama
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Pedro Álvares Cabral
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Pedro Álvares Cabral22.4.1500
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King Manuel I of Portugal. An expedition to
India. 13 ships left on March 9, 1500,
following the route of Vasco da Gama. On April
22, 1500, he sighted land (Brazil), claiming it
for Portugal and naming it the "Island of the
True Cross. Brazil (pau brasil) Cabral stayed
in Brazil for 10 days and then continued on his
way to India
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Portuguese Empire
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Pau Brasil (Brazilwood)
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Slavery
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SUGAR CANE

• Portuguese cultivate sugar on the east coast of
  Brazil.
• Growing number of sugar plantations demanded more
  workers.
• Amerindian population had become smaller.
• Labor shortage ? import slaves from Africa into
  Brazil to work on the plantations.

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ECONOMY, PERIODS A case Soybean

• 1. timber (Pau Brasil) in the first years of
  colonization
• 2. sugarcane in the sixteenth and seventeenth
  centuries
• 3. precious metals (gold) and gems (diamonds) in
  the eighteenth century
• 4. coffee and cattle in the nineteenth and early
  twentieth centuries.
• 5. land rich in natural resources? principally
  iron ore, bauxite, manganese, nickel, uranium,
  gold, gemstones, oil, and timber.

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Branqueamento

• Brazil ? one of the last countries to end the
  slave trade and slavery.
• The Brazilian economy depended on African slave
  labor.
• 1850 Brazil abolished the trade in slaves in
  1850
• 1888 All slaves in Brazil were set free.
• Racial discrimination.
• Branqueamento Whitening ? to make the people of
  Brazil more white, and less black.
• Brazil did not allow non-Europeans into the
  country.
• Cultural branqueamento.

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Tiradentes (1746 - 21.4.1792)José Joaquim da
Silva Xavier
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Decline of the sugar industry in the 17th century
?Portuguese colonizers operating on the coast of
Brazil go inland ?they found gold and diamonds

• Photo Sebastiao Salgado, 1986

• Gold Mine of Serra Pelada, Federal State of Para.
  

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Cattle Coffee
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Getulio Vargas - Juscelino Kubitschek -
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

• In 1889 Brazil became a Republic and introduced a
  new Constitution.
• The first 30 years were marked by the politics of
  Coffee with Milk, a reference to the states of
  Minas Gerais and São Paulo (respectively
  producers of dairy and coffee), which took turns
  governing Brazil.
• In 1930, led by Getúlio Vargas, the country
  embarked on a new industrial and urban
  development model. Basic human rights and
  workers rights were implemented ? The New State
• From 1960, Juscelino Kubitschek made good on his
  campaign promise to build a brand new capital,
  Brasilia, and achieve 50 years of development
  in 5 years

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QUEREMISMO ? Love as a principle and
order as the basis progress as the goal
(Auguste Compte)
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Juscelino Kubitschek1956-1961
BRASILIA
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Brasilia - Oscar Niemeyer
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João Goulart 1961-1964
Reformas de Base

• Strong state intervention in the economy.
• Education reform Paulo Freire method
  (Sorrettujen pedagogiikka, Pedagogia do oprimido,
  Pedagogy of the Oppressed). Prohibited the
  operation of private schools. 15 of the income
  produced in Brazil would be directed to
  education.
• Tax reform control of profits transfer by
  multinational companies with headquarters abroad
  ? the profit should be reinvested in Brazil.
  Income tax would be proportional to personal
  profit.
• Land reform properties larger than 600 hectares
  would be expropriated and redistributed to the
  population by the government.
• Urban reform people could own only a single
  house. Those who had more than one urban property
  would have to donate them or sell their
  properties at low prices.

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Military government 1964-1985
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 2003-2010
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BRAZIL politics

• LULA DA SILVA

• DILMA ROUSSEFF

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Pais
Tropical - Sergio Mendes https//www.youtube.com/
watch?v18u-SNiICUk Moro num país tropical
abençoado por Deus e bonito por natureza. Em
fevereiro, tem carnaval, e tenho um fusca e um
violão. Sou flamengo e tenho uma nega chamada
Tereza Sambaby , Sambaby posso não ser um band
leader, pois é. Mas lá em casa todos issos tipos
me respeitam, pois é. E essa é? a razão da
simpatia, do poder, e da alegria.
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Joe Carioca José Carioca - Zé
Carioca
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhRz-M30PcEUfeature
related
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Violence in Brazil is criminal rather than
political? Favelas Rocinha
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Manaus
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Amazon
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AMAZON
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The Sambadrome (Sambódromo)
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Jorge Amado (1912-2001)

• 1978
• Bahia
• Latin american boom
• Jubiabá (1935)
• Modernism ( no realism)
• Magic realism blends magical or fantastical
  elements with reality

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Yes, we can!
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Samba Dance - Learn how to dance
samba http//www.youtube.com/watch?vW551R1h_LKA

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http//pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeitinho