Temas de relações internacionais, de política externa e de diplomacia brasileira, com ênfase em políticas econômicas, em viagens, livros e cultura em geral. Um quilombo de resistência intelectual em defesa da racionalidade, da inteligência e das liberdades democráticas.
O que é este blog?
Este blog trata basicamente de ideias, se possível inteligentes, para pessoas inteligentes. Ele também se ocupa de ideias aplicadas à política, em especial à política econômica. Ele constitui uma tentativa de manter um pensamento crítico e independente sobre livros, sobre questões culturais em geral, focando numa discussão bem informada sobre temas de relações internacionais e de política externa do Brasil. Para meus livros e ensaios ver o website: www.pralmeida.org. Para a maior parte de meus textos, ver minha página na plataforma Academia.edu, link: https://itamaraty.academia.edu/PauloRobertodeAlmeida.
quarta-feira, 15 de junho de 2016
Dois gigantes do brasilianismo na historia e na economia: Thomas Skidmore e Werner Baer - Paulo Roberto de Almeida
segunda-feira, 13 de junho de 2016
Thomas Skidmore sempre presente no debate historiografico e sobre racas no Brasil
Thomas Skidmore no Roda Viva
O historiador norte-americano Thomas Skidmore deu uma importante entrevista ao programa Roda Viva:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M16Xz-l6E0c&feature=youtu.be
Livro Preto no Branco de Thomas Skidmore disponível parcialmente
Parte do capítulo 1 está disponível no site da Companhia das Letras:
http://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/trechos/13014.pdf
Thomas Skidmore: um gigante do brasilianismo academico - David V. Fleischer
Thomas E. Skidmore
Troy, Ohio (22 July 1932) - Westerly, RI (11 June 2016)
domingo, 12 de junho de 2016
Thomas E. Skidmore: o brasilianista exemplar - James Green e Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Abaixo, minibiografia sobre Skidmore escrita por James Green, que o sucedeu na cátedra na Universidade de Brown.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Thomas E. Skidmore, the prominent historian of Brazil, passed away on June 11, 2016 in Westerly, Rhode Island. He left a rich intellectual legacy in his books and articles that analyze politics, society, and culture in twentieth-century Brazil.
In 1967, Skidmore moved with his family to Madison, Wisconsin where he led a large Latin American Studies program at the University of Wisconsin. He edited the Luso-Brazilian Review and trained many generations of scholars, while continuously maintaining a close relationship with Brazil. In 1972, he was elected President of the Latin American Studies Association. Two years later, Skidmore published Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought that was a pioneering contribution to Brazilian intellectual history. It was recently reissued in Brazil as Preto no Branco—Raça e nacionalidade no pensamento brasileiro (1970-1930) by Companhia das Letras.
After twenty years at the University Wisconsin, Skidmore was appointed the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American history at Brown University. He directed the Center for Latin American Studies for a decade and completed The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-85, published in Portuguese under the title Brasil de Castelo a Tancredo. He retired from Brown University in 1999.
Among the most well known Brazilianists, on two occasions he made public statements about the political situation in Brazil that caused confrontations with the military dictatorship. In 1970, Skidmore and three other prominent scholars of Brazil in the United States signed an open letter condemning the imprisonment of the leading Marxist historian Caio Prado Júnior. At the time, Skidmore served as the Chair of the Government Relations Committee of the Latin American Studies Association. In that capacity, he sponsored a resolution condemning the military regime’s systematic repression of Brazilian academics and other oppositionists. In retaliation for his political stance, the Brazilian government denied him a research visa to teach a seminar at the State University of Campinas in the summer of 1970.
In 1984, on the eve of the return to democratic rule, while lecturing in Brazil, Professor Skidmore was summoned to appear before the Federal Police for commenting on the political situation and was threatened with expulsion from the country. Charges were later dropped. Many academics, politicians and journalists came to his defense, considering the actions of the Federal Police as unconstitutional and a violation of academic freedom.
Skidmore is survived by his wife Felicity and three sons.
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Paulo Roberto de Almeida:
Enquanto estive em Washington, convivemos em algumas ocasiões, sempre por minha iniciativa, pois que estimulei os estudos sobre o Brasil nos EUA através de diversas iniciativas todas acolhidas pelo Embaixador Rubens Barbosa.
Abaixo, e apenas relativo ao ano de 2003, quando já me preparava para sair de Washington, algumas notas de trabalhos que elaborei ou planejei, em relação aos Brasilianistas, em geral, a Tom Skidmore em particular.
1117. “O americano cordial: Thomas Skidmore e a história do Brasil”, Washington, 17 set. 2003, 1 p. Esquema de possível obra sobre a produção historiográfica do Prof. Thomas E. Skidmore, constando de introdução analítica, depoimento pessoal, seleção de textos, biobibliografia. Submetida a TS (Thomas_Skidmore@brown.edu).
sexta-feira, 26 de abril de 2013
Tom Skidmore's Brasiliana collection of books and papers at the Brown University Library
The Thomas E. Skidmore Collection
The collection contains numerous Brazilian rare and special books on subjects related to race, nationalism, politics, economics, and Brazilian history that are now available for consultation at the John Hay Library. These materials will complement other collections of rare books such as the George Earl Church Collection, which contains approximately 3,500 volumes largely composed of 18th and early 19th-century monographs on economic, historical, geographic, and descriptive studies of Mexico, Central and South America.
Non-rare materials have been transferred to the Rockefeller Library to complement existing holdings on Brazilian history, politics, society and culture.
Prof. Skidmore also generously donated a number of early lithograph reproductions by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Debret, who is known for his depictions of the peoples and landscape of Brazil. These prints will become part of the holdings of the John Hay Library.