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From Selma to Salvador: African-American Echoes in the Brazilian Movimiento Negro

Jan 14, 2009 | Perspectives, The Sixties, Sixties

When James Brown released “Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud” in 1969, little did he know that his music, his swagger, and his style would play a prominent role in Brazilian blacks’ struggle for self-affirmation.
Brown certainly wasn’t the sole catalyst of the Brazilian movimento negro, which has yet to experience a large-scale, organized black movement as the United States did in the 1960s. Yet, Brazil—the country with …

Art and Politics in Brazil: En Route to an Artistic Vocation

Jan 14, 2009 | Perspectives, The Sixties, Sixties

Right at the eve of the military coup d’état that took place in 1964, there was an ongoing debate in Brazil about the relationship between art and society. Many artists and intellectuals were interested in forging a cultural production that was ethically and politically significant, but not necessarily nationalistic or ideological, as the orthodox left had prescribed. Artists associated with these new proposals were criticized both by the left and …

The Sixties in Argentina: Political Repression, Cultural Vibrancy

Jan 14, 2009 | Perspectives, The Sixties, Sixties

In Argentina the Sixties arrived late. With mere glimpses of counter-culture and protest in the second half of the decade, those who participated in cultural and political change were silenced, forced underground or into exile by the mid-70s. During all these years, Argentina was ruled by successive weak military regimes interrupted from time to time by duly elected also weak civilian governments, inevitably deposed by …

Sisters, Brothers, Young Lords: A Common Cause: 40 Years of Struggle and Remembrance

Jan 14, 2009 | Perspectives, The Sixties, Sixties

I had forgotten how young, defiant and determined we were. We saw ourselves as instruments of change, students of revolution. What we lacked in terms of experience, we made up for with enthusiasm and commitment. Viewing photographs from forty years past, we milled through the exhibit, scrutinizing photos, graying militants remembering, owning our pasts. Like many of those present at the gathering, I had carved …

Degeneration of the Sixties: A Look at Spain

Jan 14, 2009 | Perspectives, The Sixties, Sixties

I heard the expression “the sixties” for the first time in secondary school when my language teacher wrote the number 68 on the blackboard to illustrate his lesson on the difference between the verbs denote and connote. The first meant just that: to mean objectively; connote, on the other hand, involved not only the specific meaning of a word, but another meaning of the appellative or expressive type. Thus, my teacher …

Theme: Culture

From Selma to Salvador: African-American Echoes in the Brazilian Movimiento Negro

Art and Politics in Brazil: En Route to an Artistic Vocation

The Sixties in Argentina: Political Repression, Cultural Vibrancy

Sisters, Brothers, Young Lords: A Common Cause: 40 Years of Struggle and Remembrance

Degeneration of the Sixties: A Look at Spain