Slavery, Abolition and Race in Brazil
Conversa with:
Zephyr Frank, Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Stanford
University. Author of Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in
Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.
and
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Anthropology, Universidade de São
Paulo, and Spring 2008 Tinker Visiting Professor, Columbia University.
Author of The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the
Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930.
Moderator:
Vincent Brown, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, Harvard
University. Author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World
of Atlantic Slavery.
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time: 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Location: CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
--
Marcio Siwi
Fellow / Program Officer
Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil