O negro no futebol brasileiro


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O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro, do jornalista Mario Filho, que empresta o seu nome ao Maracanã, é uma obra conhecida por aplausos unânimes. Mesmo num tema como o abordado, que mostra o indisfarçável racismo contra o negro nos primórdios do futebol brasileiro, o autor conseguiu dar leveza e envolvência ao livro. Muito bem cuidada, com apuro nos detalhes, esta edição reconstituiu o prefácio de Gilberto Freyre à primeira edição, o texto de Édison Carneiro para as orelhas da segunda edição, o de João Máximo para as orelhas da terceira, além do texto da apresentação do editor para essa terceira edição. A edição da Mauad Editora traz um caderno especial com a trajetória de Mario Filho, assinada pelo neto e jornalista Mario Neto, com fotos e perfis de alguns dos primeiros craques negros e mulatos do futebol brasileiro, com o texto assinado pelo historiador Gilberto Agostino. Este caderno chega ao final com a história da imagem da capa, do artista plástico Rebolo, que também foi jogador de futebol, e que mostra, pioneiramente, na arte brasileira uma cena de jogadores em campo: o negro driblando o próprio Rebolo, que se auto-retrata. O texto das orelhas é assinado pelo historiador Francisco Carlos Teixeira da Silva, professor titular da UFRJ, e o prefácio de autoria do cientista político Luis Fernandes, professor na PUC-Rio e UFF, que situa a obra de Mario Filho “no mesmo plano dos grandes textos interpretativos da formação social brasileira, como Casa Grande e Senzala, de Gilberto Freyre, Raízes do Brasil, de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, e Os Donos do Poder, de Raymundo Faoro.”




O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro


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A MAUAD Editora lança a nova edição do maior clássico sobre o futebol no Brasil: O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro, do jornalista Mario Filho, que empresta o seu nome ao maior estádio do mundo, o Maracanã. Esta é a 5a Edição de uma obra conhecida por aplausos unânimes. Retornando ao mercado após nove anos de ausência, esta edição traz um Caderno Especial com a trajetória de Mario Filho, assinada pelo neto e jornalista Mario Neto, com fotos e perfis de alguns dos primeiros craques negros e mulatos do futebol brasileiro, com o texto assinado pelo historiador Gilberto Agostino. Este Caderno chega ao final com a história da imagem da capa, do artista plástico Rebolo, que também foi jogador de futebol, e que mostra pioneiramente na arte brasileira uma cena de jogadores em campo: o negro driblando o próprio Rebolo, que se auto-retrata.Bem cuidada, com apuro nos detalhes – ao ponto de trazer reconstituído, como no original, o prefácio de Gilberto Freyre à primeira edição (de 1947), no qual havia lapsos – (supressões de palavras em dois parágrafos) desde a segunda edição (de 1964), a 5a Edição traz ao público todo o percurso da obra. Assim, nada foi retirado em relação às edições anteriores: além do prefácio de Gilberto Freyre, o texto das orelhas da segunda edição, de Édison Carneiro, o das orelhas da terceira edição (1994), de João Máximo, e mesmo a apresentação do editor da terceira edição podem nela ser encontrados.Objetivando também atingir um público universitário, a MAUAD Editora prepara-se para divulgar esta 5a Edição nas salas de aula, com vistas a levar ao conhecimento da nova geração o estilo magistral de Mario Filho: bem-humorado, objetivo e direto, como um grande contador de histórias. Mesmo num tema como o deste livro, que trata do indisfarçável racismo contra o negro nos primórdios do futebol brasileiro, ele consegue uma leveza e uma envolvência características dos grandes escritores. Esta edição traz o texto de orelhas assinado pelo historiador Francisco Carlos Teixeira Da Silva, professor na UFRJ e idealizador e coordenador do Laboratório de Estudos do Tempo Presente (IFCS/UFRJ), e prefácio do cientista político Luis Fernandes, professor na PUC-Rio e UFF, que situa a obra de Mario Filho “no mesmo plano dos grandes textos interpretativos da formação social brasileira, como Casa Grande e Senzala, de Gilberto Freyre, Raízes do Brasil, de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, e Os Donos do Poder, de Raymundo Faoro.”




The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer


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At turns lyrical, ironic, and sympathetic, Mario Filho's chronicle of "the beautiful game" is a classic of Brazilian sports writing. Filho (1908–1966)—a famous Brazilian journalist after whom Rio's Maracana stadium is officially named—tells the Brazilian soccer story as a boundary-busting one of race relations, popular culture, and national identity. Now in English for the first time, the book highlights national debates about the inclusion of African-descended people in the body politic and situates early black footballers as key creators of Brazilian culture. When first introduced to Brazil by British expatriots at the end of the nineteenth century, the game was reserved for elites, excluding poor, working-class, and black Brazilians. Filho, drawing on lively in-depth interviews with coaches, players, and fans, points to the 1920s and 1930s as watershed decades when the gates cracked open. The poor players and players of color entered the game despite virulent discrimination. By the mid-1960s, Brazil had established itself as a global soccer powerhouse, winning two World Cups with the help of star Afro-Brazilians such as Pele and Garrincha. As a story of sport and racism in the world's most popular sport, this book could not be more relevant today.




Futbolera


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Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbolera is the first monograph on women’s sports in Latin America. Because sports evoke such passion, they are fertile ground for understanding the formation of social classes, national and racial identities, sexuality, and gender roles. Futbolera tells the stories of women athletes and fans as they navigated the pressures and possibilities within organized sports. Futbolera charts the rise of physical education programs for girls, often driven by ideas of eugenics and proper motherhood, that laid the groundwork for women’s sports clubs, which began to thrive beyond the confines of school systems. Futbolera examines how women challenged both their exclusion from national pastimes and their lack of access to leisure, bodily integrity, and public space. This vibrant history also examines women’s sports through comparative case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and others. Special attention is given to women’s sports during military dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s as well as the feminist and democratic movements that followed. The book culminates by exploring recent shifts in mindset toward women’s football and dynamic social movements of players across Latin America.




The Brazilian Revolution of 1930


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The third of October 2020 marked the 90th anniversary of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930. Although this event is recognized in Brazilian historiography as an important landmark in the construction of contemporary Brazil, debate, discourse and indeed publications commemorating the event have been much less numerous and profound than would be expected. Comparisons have been made with what took place in 1980, the year of the revolutions fiftieth anniversary, where meaningful historical judgements were made across a wide spectrum of society and the political establishment. It is pertinent to ask why there is no longer the appetite for substantive discussion on the Vargas period. Perhaps it is due to the new political climate in Brazil in the last decade, especially with regard to various projects aimed at labour and trade union reform, the main legacies of the revolutionary period which today are considered by many as obstacles to the modernization of the labour market and the country's economic development. Given the economic imperatives and aims of the 1930 Revolution, a re-evaluation of the Vargas Period will assist in better understanding the contemporary economic issues that face Brazil today. The exercise is neither one of nostalgia or exaltation of this past period, but rather to offer a (positive and negative) overview of Vargas legacy and the vast historiography that surrounds it. Scholars, politicians, business and the Brazilian workforce need to learn from past economic choices in order to better understand the challenges that contemporary Brazil faces. Recently proposed reforms have strong overtones to the revolutionary agenda of the 1930s, namely the forging of a New Brazil and the necessity of avoiding political schism. This book examines the political, economic, labour, cultural, military, and gender ramifications that will guide debate.




Globalised Football


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When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the revolution in information technologies. In an exploration of these themes the collection provides insight into academic studies of football in Portugal, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the USA. At examining football-related phenomena under the headings of nations and migration, myths and business, the city and the dream, it shows how modernised football itself is object and subject in processes of both neo-liberal globalisation and counter hegemonic globalisation. While the contributions highlight characteristics of particular local and national contexts, the volume focuses on global centre-periphery-relations and migration trajectories of football professionals by analysing recent developments in post-colonial Portuguese speaking areas: The high ranking of "Portuguese football" not only serves in national(ist) discourses or in order to emancipate the country from a marginal position, it also turns Portugal into a football-talent exporter, confronting it partly with the same ambiguous consequences as Brazil and the African countries, who "lose" their football talents to the European centre. The receiving countries, again, include Portugal. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer in Society




The Country of Football


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Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between soccer, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian national identity; race relations; political and social movements; and the impact of the sport on social mobility. Contributions to the book range in time from the late nineteenth century, when the British first introduced the sport to Brazil, to the present day, as the 'country of soccer' prepares itself to host the 2014 World Cup, painting a vivid picture of the many ways in which soccer exists and functions in Brazil, both on and off the pitch.




Barack Obama is Brazilian


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This book examines US President Barack Obama’s characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. Brazilians celebrate their country as a racial democracy; thus the US works as its nemesis. The rise of a black president to the office of the most prominent country in the global, political, and economic landscape led some analysts to postulate that the US was living in a post-racial era. President Obama’s election also had a tremendous impact on the imaginary of the African Diaspora, and this volume investigates how the election of the first black US president complicates Brazilians’ own racial discourses. By focusing on three events—Barack Obama's election in 2008, his visit to Brazil in March 2011, and the aftermath of the US espionage on the Brazilian government in 2013—Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte analyzes Barack Obama's shifting portrayals that confirm and challenge Brazilian racial conceptions projected upon his figure.




Brazil, Mixture Or Massacre?


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A penetrating analysis of Brazilian history,politics, art, literature, drama, culture, and,religion make this the most authoritative,Afro-Brazilian perspective available.




Colour? What colour?


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The playing fields of football are built with the profound values of fair play, equality and mutual respect -- they sometimes also display unacceptable racist, xenophobic and intolerant views. To counter this challenge, UNESCO is acting across the board with all its partners. In 2009, the European Club Association signed, on behalf of its 144 members, a Declaration promoting the inclusion of anti-discrimination and anti-racism clauses in players{u2019} contracts. Since then, in multiple partnerships with football clubs {u2013} including Barcelona and Malaga FC (Spain), Ruby Shenzhen (China), Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia) and recently with Juventus Football Club (Italy) -- UNESCO has placed emphasis on the role of clubs in propagating the essential messages of tolerance, respect and inclusion. This Report offers the first exhaustive overview of the challenge and proposes good practice that can be taken forward by clubs everywhere. -- foreword.