Bryan Pitts
Biographic Data
| ID | 669648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Pitts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitts |
| SIGNATURE | PITTS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3856-4616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transimperial Anxieties: The Making and Unmaking of Arab Ottomans in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1940
Any scholar interested in Arab immigration to Brazil is familiar with the narrative: intrepid immigrants from Syria and Lebanon crossed an ocean in search of a better life, got their start as peddlers, and within a generation had transformed themselves into prosperous, respected Brazilian citizens. “From peddlers to doctors,” as Oswaldo Truzzi put it in the title of his 1992 book.José D. Najar's ambitious monograph challenges received narratives …
Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
Until the Storm Passes reveals how Brazil's 1964–1985 military dictatorship contributed to its own demise by alienating the civilian political elites who initially helped bring it to power. Based on exhaustive research conducted in nearly twenty archives in five countries, as well as on oral histories with surviving politicians from the period, this book tells the surprising story of how the alternatingly self-interested and heroic resistance of …
Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil's Long Coup
A comprehensive examination of the evidence available, contained in U.S. government statements, English-language media accounts, and hacked Telegram chats among Brazilian prosecutors, indicates that the United States was closely involved in the "long coup" that removed the left from power in Brazil in 2016 and secured the election of the far-right in 2018. Just as after Brazil's U.S.-backed 1964 coup, this evidence has largely been ignored by U.S…
Anti-Communist Solidarity: US-Brazilian Labor Relations during the Dictatorship in Cold-War Brazil (1964-1985)
The last decade has witnessed a crusade by the Brazilian Right, losers of four consecutive presidential elections, to seize power through extralegal means. At the center of this was Operação Lava Jato, which used politicized corruption allegations to discredit the center-left Workers' Party and culminated in the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, the imprisonment of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the election of the far-right Jair Bo…
Sound and Politics: The Audio Archive of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
The Câmara dos Deputados, the lower house of Brazil’s National Congress, is a leader in the digitization and online dissemination of audiovisual recordings of legislative sessions. Its website hosts the Arquivo Sonoro, an initiative of the Câmara’s audiovisual department, which contains over 120,000 hours of recordings of speeches, votes, and committee meetings spanning over half a century. The Câmara also makes available online complete video of…
“They are mar-vel-ous, and they all want me!”: Gay Brazilian tourists and global geographies of desire
This article explores the geographies of desire that inform contact between gay Brazilian tourists and the men they encounter abroad. It argues that Brazilian men largely embrace the sexualized image of themselves that circulates globally and value foreign men according to their proximity to whiteness. By studying tourists who hail from the Global South, their imaginings of the Global North, and the ways they exoticize themselves, the article bri…
Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil
On April 17, 2016, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. As the deputies cast their votes, they gave short proclamations to justify their decision, dedicating their votes not only to their state, voters, and family but also to God. Others offered their votes on behalf of a variety of conservative causes célèbres, like schoolchildren whose sexuality might become muddled by Rousseff's party's supposed promotio…
St Century Golpismo: A Nacla Roundtable
Tanks in the streets. Generals declaring victory over communism. Congress closed. Civil liberties suspended. For those of us whose knowledge of Latin America was shaped by the Cold War, these are p
O sangue da mocidade está correndo: A Classe Política E Seus Filhos Enfrentam Os Militares Em 1968
No Brasil, o ano de 1968 é lembrado pelos confrontos violentos entre o movimento estudantil e o regime militar. O artigo sustenta que não é possível entender a crise de 1968 sem levar em conta um grupo ignorado pela maioria dos estudos - os políticos civis que eram ligados aos estudantes por laços de classe social e sangue. Cada vez mais decepcionados após 4 anos de regime militar autoritário que havia tirado várias das suas prerrogativas, muitos…
The Audacity to Strong-Arm the Generals: Paulo Maluf and the 1978 São Paulo Gubernatorial Contest
In 1978, as striking metalworkers, students, and a revitalized political opposition challenged the Brazilian military regime from without, a stunning rebellion by the regime's civilian allies in São Paulo undermined it from within. Dealing the regime a shocking political defeat, the delegates to the regime-allied political party's state convention rejected the generals' anointed gubernatorial candidate and narrowly nominated the rebel Paulo Maluf…
O sangue da mocidade está correndo: A Classe Política E Seus Filhos Enfrentam Os Militares Em 1968
No Brasil, o ano de 1968 é lembrado pelos confrontos violentos entre o movimento estudantil e o regime militar. O artigo sustenta que não é possível entender a crise de 1968 sem levar em conta um grupo ignorado pela maioria dos estudos - os políticos civis que eram ligados aos estudantes por laços de classe social e sangue. Cada vez mais decepcionados após 4 anos de regime militar autoritário que havia tirado várias das suas prerrogativas, muitos…
The Audacity to Strong-Arm the Generals: Paulo Maluf and the 1978 São Paulo Gubernatorial Contest
In 1978, as striking metalworkers, students, and a revitalized political opposition challenged the Brazilian military regime from without, a stunning rebellion by the regime's civilian allies in São Paulo undermined it from within. Dealing the regime a shocking political defeat, the delegates to the regime-allied political party's state convention rejected the generals' anointed gubernatorial candidate and narrowly nominated the rebel Paulo Maluf…
O sangue da mocidade está correndo: A Classe Política E Seus Filhos Enfrentam Os Militares Em 1968
No Brasil, o ano de 1968 é lembrado pelos confrontos violentos entre o movimento estudantil e o regime militar. O artigo sustenta que não é possível entender a crise de 1968 sem levar em conta um grupo ignorado pela maioria dos estudos - os políticos civis que eram ligados aos estudantes por laços de classe social e sangue. Cada vez mais decepcionados após 4 anos de regime militar autoritário que havia tirado várias das suas prerrogativas, muitos…
St Century Golpismo: A Nacla Roundtable
Tanks in the streets. Generals declaring victory over communism. Congress closed. Civil liberties suspended. For those of us whose knowledge of Latin America was shaped by the Cold War, these are p
Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil
On April 17, 2016, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. As the deputies cast their votes, they gave short proclamations to justify their decision, dedicating their votes not only to their state, voters, and family but also to God. Others offered their votes on behalf of a variety of conservative causes célèbres, like schoolchildren whose sexuality might become muddled by Rousseff's party's supposed promotio…
Sound and Politics: The Audio Archive of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
The Câmara dos Deputados, the lower house of Brazil’s National Congress, is a leader in the digitization and online dissemination of audiovisual recordings of legislative sessions. Its website hosts the Arquivo Sonoro, an initiative of the Câmara’s audiovisual department, which contains over 120,000 hours of recordings of speeches, votes, and committee meetings spanning over half a century. The Câmara also makes available online complete video of…
“They are mar-vel-ous, and they all want me!”: Gay Brazilian tourists and global geographies of desire
This article explores the geographies of desire that inform contact between gay Brazilian tourists and the men they encounter abroad. It argues that Brazilian men largely embrace the sexualized image of themselves that circulates globally and value foreign men according to their proximity to whiteness. By studying tourists who hail from the Global South, their imaginings of the Global North, and the ways they exoticize themselves, the article bri…
Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
Until the Storm Passes reveals how Brazil's 1964–1985 military dictatorship contributed to its own demise by alienating the civilian political elites who initially helped bring it to power. Based on exhaustive research conducted in nearly twenty archives in five countries, as well as on oral histories with surviving politicians from the period, this book tells the surprising story of how the alternatingly self-interested and heroic resistance of …
Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil's Long Coup
A comprehensive examination of the evidence available, contained in U.S. government statements, English-language media accounts, and hacked Telegram chats among Brazilian prosecutors, indicates that the United States was closely involved in the "long coup" that removed the left from power in Brazil in 2016 and secured the election of the far-right in 2018. Just as after Brazil's U.S.-backed 1964 coup, this evidence has largely been ignored by U.S…
Anti-Communist Solidarity: US-Brazilian Labor Relations during the Dictatorship in Cold-War Brazil (1964-1985)
The last decade has witnessed a crusade by the Brazilian Right, losers of four consecutive presidential elections, to seize power through extralegal means. At the center of this was Operação Lava Jato, which used politicized corruption allegations to discredit the center-left Workers' Party and culminated in the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, the imprisonment of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the election of the far-right Jair Bo…
Transimperial Anxieties: The Making and Unmaking of Arab Ottomans in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1940
Any scholar interested in Arab immigration to Brazil is familiar with the narrative: intrepid immigrants from Syria and Lebanon crossed an ocean in search of a better life, got their start as peddlers, and within a generation had transformed themselves into prosperous, respected Brazilian citizens. “From peddlers to doctors,” as Oswaldo Truzzi put it in the title of his 1992 book.José D. Najar's ambitious monograph challenges received narratives …
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Brazilian cultural history and politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Communism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Youth, Politics, and Society (3 works) · Democracy (2 works)