... a ‘moral panic’. After presenting this argument, the chapter concludes by discussing the future of church politics in Brazil. church in cells anti LGBT countermovements gender ideology moral panic evangelical church Saroglou Vassilis Loiola J R A abortion adoption Feliciano Marco feminist...

...The purpose of this chapter is to clarify the way in which Brazil has developed a system of colour classification with regard to Afro-descendants in the period since abolition. The intention is not only to show how this system developed over time, but also how it has been shaped by the mobilisation...

...In this chapter, Débora Maria da Silva gives testimony to the disappearance and killing of her son Edson on 15 May 2006 in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. His death occurred as part of what has been termed the ‘May Crimes’ in which state security forces have been implicated in the murder and enforced...

... José Reis, and Patricia Sampaio for suggestions and discussion. In Brazil, I owe a particular debt to Luís Camargo, Attorney General of the Ministério Público do Trabalho (MPT), for having invited me to participate in a panel at the November 2012 gathering of MPT attorneys working on issues...

...Portuguese enclaves in Brazil and Angola maintained bilateral trade and cultural exchanges from the sixteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century. While in Brazil the growth of the mulatto population appears as a key feature of Luso-Brazilian colonialism, and Afro-Brazilians...

...This chapter evaluates the free coloured class under slavery in imperial Brazil. Being the largest such group in the Americas, the free coloureds by the middle of the nineteenth century were also by far the single largest ethnic/status group in Brazilian society. The chapter examines how and why...

... The present text was elaborated from the results of the research project ‘State Violence in Brazil: A Study of Crimes of May 2006 in the Perspective of Transitional Justice and Forensic Anthropology’. The research was conducted as part of an institutional collaboration project...

... This chapter is an adaptation of an earlier work by the author ( Weichert 2017 ), published with permission from Sur. In the post-transition period, Brazil has experienced extremely high levels of lethal violence, perpetrated by both criminal groups and public security forces...

... supremacy been confronted in Brazil and Portugal? And how should we assess the impact of recent trends of emigration and immigration? These are some of the major questions that have structured this book. It both contextualises and challenges the visions of Gilberto Freyre and Charles Boxer, which...

...The idea of Brazil as a ‘racial democracy’ and a mixture of peoples and cultures became a central part of its national identity following the publication of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-grande e senzala in 1933. This chapter argues that the idea of racial democracy cannot be understood...

... accountability and transitional justice, and the enormous hurdles it faces in achieving those goals. Brazil Brazil Volkswagen National Truth Commission Workers Accountability More than three decades after the end of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964–85), the country is still trying to understand...