James N. Green is Pro­fes­sor of His­tory and Brazil­ian Stud­ies and a spe­cial­ist on mod­ern Brazil­ian his­tory. As a young adven­turer he trav­eled to Latin Amer­ica with the plan to stay in Brazil for six months and ended up stay­ing six years. There he par­tic­i­pated in the oppo­si­tion to the mil­i­tary regime and was a founder of the LGBT move­ment. After many other careers, he returned to acad­e­mia to get a doc­tor­ate in Latin Amer­i­can his­tory at UCLA. He has pub­lished two award-winning books, Beyond Car­ni­val: Male Homo­sex­u­al­ity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and We Can­not Remain Silent: Oppo­si­tion to the Brazil­ian Mil­i­tary Dic­ta­tor­ship in the United States. He has served as the Pres­i­dent of the Brazil­ian Stud­ies Asso­ci­a­tion and is cur­rently work­ing as a con­sul­tant with the Brazil­ian National Truth Com­mis­sion that is inves­ti­gat­ing the State’s vio­la­tion of human rights dur­ing the mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor­ship. He is cur­rently work­ing on a biog­ra­phy of Her­bert Daniel (1946–92), a for­mer guer­rilla fighter, along­side Brazil’s cur­rent pres­i­dent Dilma Rouss­eff, polit­i­cal exile, and AIDS activist.

In Spring 2013 he will be teach­ing:
LAS 403 Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies Sem­i­nar — Politics/Culture Dur­ing the Brazil­ian Mil­i­tary Dic­ta­tor­ship
This sem­i­nar focuses on the polit­i­cal, social, eco­nomic, and cul­tural changes that took place in Brazil dur­ing the civilian-military dic­ta­tor­ship that ruled the coun­try from 1964–85. Using pri­mary and sec­ondary sources, as well as films and doc­u­men­taries, we will exam­ine why and how the gen­er­als took power, the role the U.S. gov­ern­ment played before and after the coup d’etat in Brazil­ian affairs, the mul­ti­ple polit­i­cal and cul­tural forms of oppo­si­tion that emerged to chal­lenge author­i­tar­ian rule, the process that led to democ­ra­ti­za­tion, and Brazil’s new role as a global player and an eco­nomic pow­er­house. Pre­req­ui­sites and Restric­tions: This course is open to under­grad­u­ate stu­dents and grad­u­ate stu­dents who ful­fill one of the fol­low­ing require­ments: (a) the stu­dent has inter­me­di­ate knowl­edge of Por­tuguese; (b) the stu­dent has taken at least one pre­vi­ous course in mod­ern Latin Amer­i­can his­tory or a class related to Brazil; © the stu­dent has spent time in Brazil; (d) the stu­dent is con­vinc­ingly moti­vated to learn about recent Brazil­ian his­tory.
Sched­ule: S01 1:30pm-4:20 Th.

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