Tag: Dilma Rousseff

  • The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil

  • Special report: Why Brazil’s would-be first black president trails among blacks Reuters 2014-10-03 Brian Winter, Chief Correspondent SAO PAULO – Brazilians could make history this month by electing Marina Silva, the daughter of impoverished rubber tappers from the Amazon, as their first black president. Yet Silva is trailing incumbent President Dilma Rousseff, who is white,…

  • Challenger Upends Brazilian Race for Presidency The New York Times 2014-09-15 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — When Dilma Rousseff and Marina Silva were both cabinet ministers, they clashed on everything from building nuclear power plants to licensing huge dams in the Amazon. Ms. Rousseff came out on top, emerging as the…

  • Will Brazil elect Marina Silva as the world’s first Green president? The Guardian/The Observer 2014-08-30 Jonathan Watts, Latin America Correspondent Born into a poor, mixed-race Amazon family, Marina Silva is on the verge of a stunning election win after taking over her party It started with the national anthem and ended with a rap. In…

  • Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…

  • Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz The New York Review of Books 2010-08-17 Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History Harvard University On a recent trip to Brazil, I struck up a conversation with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, one of Brazil’s finest historians and anthropologists. The talk turned to the two subjects she has…