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quinta-feira, 27 de março de 2014

Regime militar: Opening the Archives Project, Brown University

Um projeto importante, que visa revelar uma parte da documentação diplomática e de inteligência dos arquivos americanos sobre o regime militar brasileiro, ainda que possa reforçar a percepção, equivocada, de que o "golpe começou em Washington", como já escrevia, pouco depois do golpe de 31 de março de 1964, o jornalista Edmar Morel.
Para consultar o material, cujo sumário reproduzo mais abaixo, siga este link: 

http://library.brown.edu/openingthearchives/

Para uma reportagem do jornal Folha de S.Paulo sobre esse projeto, veja este link: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2014/03/1430924-site-publica-10-mil-documentos-americanos-sobre-a-ditadura-no-brasil.shtml 

The Opening the Archives Project is a joint effort by Brown University and the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Paraná, Brazil to digitize and index 10,000 U.S. State Department documents on Brazil from 1963-73 and make them available to the public on an open-access website.

Enter the Brown Digital Repository to search through the digital archive. Additional documents are still being uploaded.

The Opening the Archives Project is an ambitious undertaking organized by Brown University and the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Paraná, Brazil to systematically digitize and index thousands of declassified documents in the U.S. State Department archives related to Brazil from 1960 to 1980, and to make them available on mirror websites at both universities. These websites will also feature several thousand pages of CIA intelligence reports previously available exclusively at the National Archives II facility in College Park, MD.
To accomplish this task, the Opening the Archives Project partnered with the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Brazilian Arquivo Nacional, and the National Security Archive at George Washington University in a joint effort to preserve crucial documentation by creating digital copies accessible online.
During the summer of 2013, a team of undergraduates from Brown University and the Universidade Estadual de Maringá scanned 9,872 U.S. State Department documents on Brazil produced between 1963 and 1973, about half of NARA’s holdings for the period under consideration. The period from 1964 to 1969 was especially turbulent and historically significant in twentieth-century Brazilian history. For that reason, the Opening the Archives Project decided to concentrate on this particular five-year time span for the first phase of operations.
This project, with the critical support of the Brown University Libraries, will substantially increase open access to an important source of primary documents, facilitating the reconstruction of the history of U.S.-Brazil relations from 1960 to 1980 for researchers around the world. The Opening the Archives Project reflects Brown’s deep academic commitment to Brazil and to building close long-term collaborations with Brazilian partners while strengthening the university’s goal of becoming a leading center for the study of Brazil in the United States.

Further Reading

Suggested works for more information on the Brazilian military dictatorship 
The 1964 Coup
Johnson, Ollie Andrew III. Brazilian Party Politics and the Coup of 1964. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Parker, Phyllis. Brazil and the Quiet Intervention, 1964. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.
Schmitter, Philippe C. Interest Conflict and Political Change in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971.
Weis, W. Michael. Cold Warriors & Coups D’etat: Brazilian-American Relations, 1945-64. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
Governments
Alves, Maria Helena Moreira. State and Opposition in Military Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.
Bacchus, Wilfred A. Mission in Mufti: Brazil’s Military Regimes, 1964-1985. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Schneider, Ronald M. The Political System of Brazil: Emergence of a “Modernizing” Authoritarian Regime, 1964-1970. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
Skidmore, Thomas E. The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-85. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Stepan, Alfred. The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
______. ed. Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
Opposition and Social Movements under Military Rule
Dunn, Christopher. Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Erickson, Kenneth Paul. The Brazilian Corporative State and Working Class Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Garfield, Seth. Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
Green, James N. We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Hanchard, Michael George. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1945-1988. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Langland, Victoria. Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
Maybury-Lewis, Biorn. The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers’ Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
Economy and Economic Policy
Baer, Werner and Joseph S. Tulchin, eds. Brazil and the Challenge of Economic Reform. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993.
Bruneau, Thomas C. and Philippe Faucher, eds. Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil’s Contemporary Economic and Political Development. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1981.
Bucco, Jack A. The Economic Policy of the Brazilian Military Regime, 1964-1985. Boston: Pearson Custom Pub, 2002.
Daland, Robert T. Brazilian Planning: Development, Politics, and Administration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.
Friedman, Sofia. Brazil, 1960-1990: Structures of Power and Processes of Change. Lanham: University Press of America, 2003.
The Repressive Apparatus
Huggins, Martha. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Sattamini, Lina Penna. A Mother’s Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Serbin, Kenneth P. Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Archdiocese of São Paulo (Brazil). Torture in Brazil: A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979 / secretly Prepared by the Archdiocese of São Paulo. [Brazil, Nunca Mas] Jaime Wright, trans.; edited with a new preface by Joan Dassin. Austin: University of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1985.