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Judicial Politics in Brazil

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Jean Vilbert Jean Vilbert is a master’s candidate (Latin American Studies) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a lecturer in the UW Department of Political Science. He holds a MIPA and a Master’s in Law and served as a judge in Brazil, where he teaches Constitutional Law. Works Cited Brazil, Chamber of Deputies. Constitution of …

Changing Dynamics of Race, Class, and Politics in Brazil and South Africa

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Gay Seidman South Africa and Brazil, two of the world’s most unequal countries, both have long histories of settler colonialism and racialized dispossession, and forced labor. But when both countries finally democratized roughly three decades ago, their popular leaders approached inequality in very different ways. In South Africa, apartheid had long enshrined white minority rule, …