Sarah Sarzynski
Biographic Data
| ID | 701094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Sarzynski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarzynski |
| SIGNATURE | SARZYNSKI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont McKenna College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History
Eyes on Amazonia: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier
It is a daunting endeavor to pursue research on well-known figures such as Teddy Roosevelt, Euclides da Cunha, and Theodor Koch-Grünberg, explorers whose Amazonian travels have been the subject of many scholarly and popular historical works. Jessica Carey-Webb offers snapshots of infamous travelers in Eyes on Amazonia: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier, showing how their writings and photography fit into a broader knowledge-c…
"Before the "Ecologically Noble Savage: Gendered Representations of Amazonia in the Global Media in the 1970s
An analysis of media representations of the Amazon and indigenous peoples reveals how media producers and filmmakers foregrounded discourses naturalizing gendered and racialized differences that distinguished the Amazon from the West in the 1970s, a decade during which the Brazilian military dictatorship promoted development projects in Amazonia. These representations often sexualized indigenous peoples and the Amazon itself, portraying them as p…
James N. Green. Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary
James N. Green’s riveting biography of Herbert Daniel, Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary, recovers the life story of a remarkable individual while providing new insights into the key themes of twentieth-century Brazilian history. The book is a page-turner. I felt engrossed by Green’s engaging prose and the captivating story, afraid that Daniel would get caught by the military and tortured or imprisoned for his leade…
Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil
The question that seems to have inspired Maite Conde's new book involves the power of silent film in Brazil's First Republic (1889–1930) to contribute to defining Brazil's national identity. As she argues, in contrast to the United States or Mexico, political and economic elites in Brazil used early cinema as a tool to put forward their visions of the modern nation. For example, Brazilian film narratives emphasized the new woman's traditional rol…
Revolution in the Terra do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil
This book recasts conventional narratives of the Cold War in Brazil and the 1964 coup through its examination of revolutionary social and cultural movements in the Northeastern region in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, hundreds of thousands of rural men and women protested in the streets, on the plantations, and in the courtrooms for land, labor, and citizenship rights. In the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the strength of the rural socia…
Reading the Cold War from the Margins: Literatura de Cordel as a Historical Prism
In November 1960, the New York Times reported on the looming revolution in Northeastern Brazil, describing how Marxist social movement leaders were organizing peasants. Reporter Tad Szulc claimed that "singers and violeiros -the traveling troubadors of the Northeast who act as human newspapers"-were spreading leader Francisco Julião's manifestos to the largely illiterate rural population and its "miserable, drought-plagued hamlets." The human new…
Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
Jan Hoffman French’s Legalizing Identities is a comprehensive analysis of the processes that two groups in Northeastern Brazil went through to classify as federally recognized Indian and quilombo (maroon) communities. The book focuses on neighboring communities along the São Francisco River in the sertão (backlands) in the state of Sergipe. Her point is to show why and how rural people who historically did not identify as Indian or black (descend…
Fórmula para o caos: A derrubada de Salvador Allende (1970 - 1973)
Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira’s captivating account of the opposition to the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970 – 73) details the impossibility of the plan for the Chilean way to socialism (“la via chilena con vino y empanadas”). The Popular Unity government faced challenges from their own supporters who adopted increasingly radical tactics such as tomas (takeovers) and land invasions. Due to the historical context of the early 1970s, Salvador…
Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945
In Diploma of Whiteness, Jerry Dávila outlines how intellectual discourses combined with public policy on issues of eugenics, nationalism, and public education in the city of Rio de Janeiro from 1917 to 1945. He argues that Brazilian intellectuals and educators shaped Rio’s public education programs into national role models, with the goal of creating what they considered an improved, or whitened, Brazilian population. These public education prog…
The Concept of Sem Terra and the Peasantry in Brazil
This article explores the meanings and uses of the term sem terra (landless) in relation to the social movement MST and tries to provide provisory answers to the following questions: What is the relationship between small landholders, rural workers, and the term sem terra ? Is the idea of sem terra class-based or does it stretch beyond “class”? Which rural populations use the term sem terra to identify themselves? Does sem terra continue to be a …
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The Concept of Sem Terra and the Peasantry in Brazil
This article explores the meanings and uses of the term sem terra (landless) in relation to the social movement MST and tries to provide provisory answers to the following questions: What is the relationship between small landholders, rural workers, and the term sem terra ? Is the idea of sem terra class-based or does it stretch beyond “class”? Which rural populations use the term sem terra to identify themselves? Does sem terra continue to be a …
Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945
In Diploma of Whiteness, Jerry Dávila outlines how intellectual discourses combined with public policy on issues of eugenics, nationalism, and public education in the city of Rio de Janeiro from 1917 to 1945. He argues that Brazilian intellectuals and educators shaped Rio’s public education programs into national role models, with the goal of creating what they considered an improved, or whitened, Brazilian population. These public education prog…
Fórmula para o caos: A derrubada de Salvador Allende (1970 - 1973)
Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira’s captivating account of the opposition to the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970 – 73) details the impossibility of the plan for the Chilean way to socialism (“la via chilena con vino y empanadas”). The Popular Unity government faced challenges from their own supporters who adopted increasingly radical tactics such as tomas (takeovers) and land invasions. Due to the historical context of the early 1970s, Salvador…
Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
Jan Hoffman French’s Legalizing Identities is a comprehensive analysis of the processes that two groups in Northeastern Brazil went through to classify as federally recognized Indian and quilombo (maroon) communities. The book focuses on neighboring communities along the São Francisco River in the sertão (backlands) in the state of Sergipe. Her point is to show why and how rural people who historically did not identify as Indian or black (descend…
Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Reading the Cold War from the Margins: Literatura de Cordel as a Historical Prism
In November 1960, the New York Times reported on the looming revolution in Northeastern Brazil, describing how Marxist social movement leaders were organizing peasants. Reporter Tad Szulc claimed that "singers and violeiros -the traveling troubadors of the Northeast who act as human newspapers"-were spreading leader Francisco Julião's manifestos to the largely illiterate rural population and its "miserable, drought-plagued hamlets." The human new…
Revolution in the Terra do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil
This book recasts conventional narratives of the Cold War in Brazil and the 1964 coup through its examination of revolutionary social and cultural movements in the Northeastern region in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, hundreds of thousands of rural men and women protested in the streets, on the plantations, and in the courtrooms for land, labor, and citizenship rights. In the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the strength of the rural socia…
James N. Green. Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary
James N. Green’s riveting biography of Herbert Daniel, Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary, recovers the life story of a remarkable individual while providing new insights into the key themes of twentieth-century Brazilian history. The book is a page-turner. I felt engrossed by Green’s engaging prose and the captivating story, afraid that Daniel would get caught by the military and tortured or imprisoned for his leade…
Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil
The question that seems to have inspired Maite Conde's new book involves the power of silent film in Brazil's First Republic (1889–1930) to contribute to defining Brazil's national identity. As she argues, in contrast to the United States or Mexico, political and economic elites in Brazil used early cinema as a tool to put forward their visions of the modern nation. For example, Brazilian film narratives emphasized the new woman's traditional rol…
"Before the "Ecologically Noble Savage: Gendered Representations of Amazonia in the Global Media in the 1970s
An analysis of media representations of the Amazon and indigenous peoples reveals how media producers and filmmakers foregrounded discourses naturalizing gendered and racialized differences that distinguished the Amazon from the West in the 1970s, a decade during which the Brazilian military dictatorship promoted development projects in Amazonia. These representations often sexualized indigenous peoples and the Amazon itself, portraying them as p…
The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History
Eyes on Amazonia: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier
It is a daunting endeavor to pursue research on well-known figures such as Teddy Roosevelt, Euclides da Cunha, and Theodor Koch-Grünberg, explorers whose Amazonian travels have been the subject of many scholarly and popular historical works. Jessica Carey-Webb offers snapshots of infamous travelers in Eyes on Amazonia: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier, showing how their writings and photography fit into a broader knowledge-c…
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