by Community Contributors

Rio’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival Hosts 13th Edition and Celebrates Ancestral Black and Indigenous Orality in ‘Little Africa’

Clique aqui para Português For Brazilian Black Awareness Month, this article covered Rio de Janeiro’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival (FLUP) on pioneering Afro-Brazilian authors—the Black elders of Brazilian literature: Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, and […]

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‘We’re Here Fighting for Our Agriculture’: Urban Farmers in Rio de Janeiro’s Vargens Region Resist Real Estate Speculation and Floods

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article in a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on water issues and the LGBTQIAPN+ […]