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Translation and Teamwork: Giving Visibility to Decades of Activism in the Baixada Fluminense

August 2, 2019 / Leave a comment

By Travis Knoll (Ph.D. in History) I spent my first three months on an SSRC-funded research grant in the Baixada Fluminense tracking down and interviewing regional and national Black Movement leaders who played key roles in Black Church militancy in this vital region for Brazil’s progressive Catholic Church, as well as activists who spearheaded the […]

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“Cost of Opportunity” undergraduates present: Brazilian higher education access spurs both economic and cultural advancement. Does one matter more?

April 26, 2019 / Leave a comment

On April 9, 2019, Duke undergraduates and “Cost of Opportunity” project members Vanessa Aguedelo and Joseph Beck presented data that suggested that Brazilian education remains both extremely difficult to access and more crucial to employment than in its developed counterparts. Joe Beck gave an overview of Brazilian education politics noting “most [university] students were wealthy […]

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Disillusionment and Surprise: Reflection on the Baixada Fluminense

November 8, 2017 / Leave a comment

By Joe Beck I was not sure what to expect when I stepped off the plane in Rio de Janeiro.  It had been about ten years since I was last in Brazil when I visited São Paulo with family and in drastically different circumstances.  I understood that we were scheduled to stay in a historically […]

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