SCA-UA 572 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Carlos Lacerda, Indigenous Peoples In Brazil, Spirit Possession
5 Feb 2015
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Topic: the popular classes in postwar brazil the populist republic (1946-1964) Increased literacy in urban areas, women were voting, new constitution allowed voters to register in their workplace: electorate is thus more urban, making politics more urban-based. Slide: 1945 queremismo (nos queremos vargas: communist party gathered to support vargas (even though he constantly suppressed them?, demonstrations called for him to stay in power or run in an election (which military didn"t allow in 1945) Leftist groups thought he"d be more likely to be critical of us and that he"d be nationalist. Slide: vargas elected president, 1950: portrayed himself as populist, nationalist, pro-labor, he appoints joao goulart as minister of labor. ~300,000 workers went on strike: vargas and goulart refused to send in federal troops to protect strikebreakers or force workers to return to their jobs, they essentially said negotiate a settlement .
