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The paper analyzes several pamphlets produced in the context of the Luso-Brazilian constitutionalist movement, whose main theme was the network of controversies formed around the so-called praga periodiqueira (periodical plague). The expression referred to the remarkable proliferation of political publications that took place during the Independence process. The approach emphasizes the different views regarding issues such as freedom and limits of the press, public role of editors, writing protocols and political mobilization. It highlights the meanings about the emergence of a set of discursive formulas that became references of public writing and of political debate throughout the XIX century in Brazil and Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the debates on the independence of Brazil in the Constituent Cortes of Lisbon in 1821-1822 and its treatment by the Portuguese press of the time and in the following years, analyzing a selection of periodicals both Absolutist and Liberal, and paying particular attention to the humorous periodicals. The departure of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil on the eve of the Peninsular War, the end of colonial monopoly with the opening of some of the Brazilian ports to international trade and the upgrade to "United Kingdom" status set the objective conditions for the independence of Brazil. The new situation was perceived in Portugal as a downgrade of the former colonial power to the status of 'colony of a colony' and became a decisive factor of the 1820 Liberal revolution. The Constituent Cortes tried to reverse the irreversible process of Brazil's emancipation and eventually helped create the subjective conditions for independence both by political clumsiness in handling the "Brazil affairs" and by echoes of that strategy in the press aimed at conquering public opinion with recourse to humor, especially sarcasm, and even downright abuse, before and after the proclamation and the recognition of the new empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates discourses about boxing in the Italian immigrant press in São Paulo between 1920 and 1935 and their relationship with national identity formation among these Italian immigrants. The newspaper Il Pasquino Coloniale is a privileged source that allows us to construct a history of four boxers: Italo Ugo, Romolo Parboni, Erminio Spalla and Primo Carnera. Our analysis shows that the prizefighters were treated as representatives of the Italian nation and that the newspaper stressed the impact that boxing had on the collective representation and national identity of the Italian colony in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes African American intellectual George Schuyler's 1948 Latin American travel narrative. His intent was to recount the experiences of Black people in the armies of Latin American countries in order to compare them to the experiences of Black people in the United States' armed forces. That same year, US President Harry Truman, in an effort to attract the vote of Black citizens in a tight election race, signed an executive order that began the process of desegregating the army. The Pittsburgh Courier, where Schuyler worked, sponsored his trip to Latin America because it was interested in promoting the debate about including Black people in the armed forces. Before he left, Schuyler believed in the idea, shared by many Black leaders at the time, that Latin American countries were more racially inclusive than the United States, which enabled Black people there to be more upwardly mobile. However, witnessing the experiences of Black people in Latin America changed his mind. His account pointed to the coexistence of miscegenation and racial prejudice, a phenomenon that scholars of race relations at that time considered a contradiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article sheds light on the unsuspected republicanism that flourished in seventeenth- Century Portugal. Long before the advent of liberal republicanism, the Portuguese kingdom nourished a long-standing tradition of liberty and devotion to the common good, singularly illustrated by the political engagement of the self-proclaimed "repúblicos." Claiming to embody an ideal model of civic virtue, they presented themselves as friends of the common good and published books that criticized politicians and condemned the vices of the republic, which they circulated among their compatriots. These efforts ushered in a novel form of political participation, one that no longer took place in the silent palaces of the nobility or the restricted space of the royal court, but in the emerging public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1861 and 1930, there were 196 active amateur dramatic associations in Rio de Janeiro, which were named societies, guilds, clubs or groups. This article intends to analyze them as associative forms of expression that struggled to obtain some sort of recognition, better schooling, urban, social or work-related improvements, or that exercised entertainment practices in the construction and affirmation of their citizenship within the daily life of the capital city. Scattered throughout the city, they were composed of blue-collar workers, public servants, soldiers, lawyers, numbers game financial controllers; individuals who were parts of different social groups and who had very distincts goals, but one common practice: to make and watch the theater. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the cultural network created by the visits of Brazilian journalists to Buenos Aires and Argentinian journalists to Rio de Janeiro, in which some have acted as cultural mediators. Such visits reinforced a transnational bourgeois sociability, and were presented by the press as a movement of rapprochement between the two nations, in what could be defined as an informal cultural diplomacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most famous volcanoes of the planet, Vesuvius (Naples, Italy), experienced periods of intense activity in the nineteenth-century. Associated with fear and desolation, according to Romanticism it was also viewed as a symbol of nature's grandiose and terrifying features, capable of arousing pleasure and a sense of the sublime. In Rio de Janeiro, references to the volcano were plentiful, from news in the press to spectacles of "erupting Vesuvius" in cosmoramas, and other optical entertainments. Finally, Vesuvius was also used in the political imaginary, with the arrival in the city of Empress Teresa Cristina, who was born in Naples, and with the tragic death of Republican leader Silva Jardim, who perished in the crater of the volcano. Between disaster, entertainment, and politics, this article aims to investigate the various meanings the volcano took in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a comparison of the cartoon representations of State terrorism published by the Brazilian newspaper O Pasquim (1969-1991) and the Argentinian magazine HUM® (1978-1999) during the distension of the military dictatorships. In these contexts, the cartoonists gradually abandoned metaphors and camouflage strategies to become more literal and direct when representing the political and clandestine violence perpetrated by the State, with the intention to put into words and images the dimensions of massacres and terror. We believe that the analysis of these transformations, the scopes and limits in the process of naming the unnameable will allow probing the threshold of tolerance and social sensitivity related to the most sinister and traumatic aspects of the dictatorships: the State's illegal violence, and the violation of Human Rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rio de Janeiro's illustrated press celebrated the anniversaries of the Lei Áurea (the Golden Law), which freed slaves in Brazil in 1888. These celebrations occurred mostly in the 1890s, the first years of a new political regime that emerged with the proclamation of the Republic. The purpose of this article is to analyze how the Republican period approached the anniversaries of an important political and social event in the history of Brazil's Empire. We will be dealing with two magazines – Revista Illustrada and Don Quixote – that portrayed the Abolition through different points of view, thus enabling us to understand the political scenario in early Republican Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to do a first approach to a set of publications of the Royal Press (Impressão Régia) of Rio de Janeiro between 1808 and 1822, which sought to highlight the measures taken by the Portuguese Crown, then established in that city, in order to promote the political integration of the different regions emerged from the Portuguese colonization process of America. These publications are discussed in the context of their importance to implement the project of a new Portuguese Empire in America, born of the enlightened reforms of the existing empire. The goal is to draw attention to the political role played by the press in support of and to legitimate this political project, highlighting the intrinsic relationship between culture and power in the Portuguese enlightened reformism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Angelo Agostini is widely known as one of the most important cartoonists of nineteen century Brazil. His fame was built on the many images of Blacks he published. In those images, the Italian artist seems to be a tireless defender of the slaves' cause. This article analyzes such images through a different set of interpretive keys. Instead of celebrating the implacable abolitionist, it seeks the underlying racial meanings, and the political logic of his caricatures of Black people. The Italian-Brazilian artist created, and recreated stereotypes of his subjects, defining those characters as sluggards, or as dangerous and irrational, and even as passive under the horrors of slavery. Mixing slavery and race to produce his drawings, Agostini created his own reputation as an abolitionist hero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]