The Making of Modern Brazil: Marginal Spaces, Race, and Urban Life

FAIN: EH-281233-21

San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, CA 92182-1931)
Erika Robb Larkins (Project Director: March 2021 to May 2024)
Kathryn Margaret Sanchez (Co Project Director: July 2021 to May 2024)

A three-week, hybrid institute for 25 higher education faculty to study modern Brazil.

This Institute will introduce scholars to the social, racial and cultural diversity of Brazil. We will discuss the aftermath of colonization and slavery in the Americas, the emergence of racial ideologies and contrasting images of urban and rural spaces. Through an exploration of scholarly sources like films, music, ethnographic texts, fiction and historical images and documents, we will examine topics such as modernity, racial politics, and urban spaces, along with social and cultural marginality, gender, class, and ethnicity. Participants will learn to include Brazil in their own courses and research by producing a module/syllabus or draft research project reflecting the themes and issues discussed. Beyond expanding and deepening the scholars' knowledge and understanding of Brazil, the Institute will enable colleagues to develop new insights for interdisciplinary teaching extending beyond Latin America, as many themes are applicable to developing areas of the world and the U.S.

Associated Products

The Making of Modern Brazil Podcast (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: The Making of Modern Brazil Podcast
Writer: Kristal Bivona
Director: Erika Robb Larkins and Kathryn Sanchez
Producer: Kristal Bivona
Abstract: The Making of Modern Brazil Podcast is a project of the NEH Summer Institute, Making of Modern Brazil hosted by the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University in Summer 2022. Our podcast talks to the faculty and graduate students who participated in the Institute about their research projects.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.digitalbrazilproject.com/podcast
Primary URL Description: This url gives access to all the podcast series.
Access Model: open access
Format: Other

Brazilian Studies Lesson Plans (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: Brazilian Studies Lesson Plans
Author: Cassandra White
Author: Stephanie Reist
Author: Tassiana Moura de Oliveira
Author: Jordan Jones
Abstract: These open-source lesson plans have been created for college-level courses in English on the topics of “Health and Illness in Brazil,” “Affirmative Action in Brazil,” “Urban Marginalization in Brazil,” “Black Women in Power,” “Environmental Racism and Quilombo Resistance,” “Slavery through Afro-Brazilian Eyes.”
Year: 2023
Primary URL: http://https://www.digitalbrazilproject.com/teaching
Primary URL Description: Brazilian studies open-source lesson plans
Audience: General Public

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