From Brazil’s Indigenous peoples and the Portuguese conquest of 1500 to the forced transportation of millions of enslaved Africans, independence, and the major waves of immigration: How did Brazil emerge as a multiracial and multicultural nation?
The program’s guests are constitutional law expert Dimitris Dimoulis, professor at the FGV Law School in São Paulo, and Brazilian scholar Soraya Gasparetto Lunardi, professor of Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights at UNESP, São Paulo State University.
Marking the anniversary of Brazil’s declaration of independence on 7 September 1822, and ahead of the country’s elections in October, “Historical Walks” travels to Latin America’s largest country, exploring it beyond the familiar stereotypes of samba, Carnival, and soccer. A historical and musical journey through a country that is a mosaic of cultures, immense wealth and extreme poverty, tolerance and structural racism, and deep social inequality.
Produced and presented by Marilena Katsimi