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How a Neighborhood in Rio’s Periphery of Duque de Caxias Is Reawakening Through Hip Hop

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Jiselle Steele • February 19, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Originating among African-Americans in protest of the exclusion promoted by dominant economic and cultural systems, the hip hop movement easily won over Brazilian communities in the mid-1980s—ten years after taking off […]

by Community Contributors

The Necropolitics of Rio’s New Governor, Wilson Witzel: Part 2

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Gabriel Martins • January 4, 2019

Clique aqui para Português  This article is the second in a two-part series in which representatives and residents of the Baixada Fluminense region of Greater Rio de Janeiro analyze the security policy tendencies of Governor […]

The governor-elect of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel, speaks to the press after meeting with President Michel Temer, Palácio do Planalto.
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The Necropolitics of Rio’s New Governor, Wilson Witzel: Part 1

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Elfie Lawson • January 2, 2019

Clique aqui para Português  This article is the first in a two-part series in which representatives and residents of the Baixada Fluminense region of Greater Rio de Janeiro analyze the security policy tendencies of Governor […]

by Community Contributors

‘Scream of the Excluded 2018’ Debates Neoliberalism and Genocide of Black Youth

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • October 14, 2018

Clique aqui para Português  Neoliberalism might be the cruelest manifestation of capitalism as its collateral impacts on society are not limited to the economic realm. Its dimensions are diverse and layered, affecting all of the […]

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Brazil’s 2018 Elections: Voices of Youth from Pantanal in the Baixada Fluminense

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • October 6, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Eça de Queiroz, the acclaimed Portuguese writer, author of classics such as The Maias and The Crime of Father Amaro, never suffered from significant financial hardship. A journalist and diplomat, he […]

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