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This article, of a theoretical nature, presents the movement of concepts produced within the scope of Mathematics Education to refer to the term mathematical literacy. Literacy appears in Brazil when the term literate was no longer sufficient to characterize society's new reading and writing demands. From this perspective, based on Brazilian studies, we searched for different terms that directed us to others in the literature in the area, in which we highlight: alfabetização matemática, numeramento, numeramentalização, literacia matemática, matemacia e materacia. From these, we aim to identify the different concepts presented and the (in)existing relationships between them, paying attention to the diversity of perspectives that make up this plot. Thus, despite the lack of uniqueness in relation to the term mathematical literacy, we understand that there is a historical perspective of the construction and evolution of ideas about being mathematically literate. Furthermore, we point out the existence of a relational dynamic between the terms, as well as the categorization in the perspectives of individual acquisition, social practice and criticism, not in an isolated way, but with greater or lesser nuances in each of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is a collection of 18 fragments written during a trip to New Delhi during February and March 2014. They can be seen as a discontinuous short travel diary which develops comparative cultural criticism between Brazil and India from ordinary experiences. As they try to develop concepts from everyday occurrences they also end up fusing academia and tourism in a way that both are eventually improved. [Article copies available for a fee from The Transformative Studies Institute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to analyze Geraldo Vandré's musical itinerary based on his discography, composed of five LPs and other compilations and singles. The focus of the text is the trait of love present in his various works, be it the love of a woman or the more general love, dedicated to the people or the nation, understood as his lover or companion. The development of the work took place in a chronological perspective, from its first LP produced in Brazil, in 1964, to the last, already in times of exile, produced in France and released in Brazil in 1973. It was a project that aimed to favor knowledge of a brilliant composer and singer, who enchanted a left-wing generation before the AI5 blackout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Literature has constantly been used by female and male writers as a tool for denunciation, social criticism, a space of reflection on the human condition, for human rights, the right to literature for writers from outlying ghettos and for the right to the act of writing. With this idea in mind, this article discusses the poetry of exclusion and the social portrait of the ghetto in the narrative of Conceição Evaristo. The outflying ghettos are a fertile environment where literature is strongly present. The literature from the ghettos intends to give voice to those excluded from society, in a new movement that came to diversify literary production and encourage reading habits on these marginalized environments. Exclusion is not simply an economical process, as it encompasses countless particularities of the social, cultural, and political life of those who are distant from the spaces of power. In this regard, Conceição Evaristo is understood as a writer that represents the themes of fighting against racial prejudice, of resistance, of the valorization of memories, oralities, and many others. The short story 'A gente combinamos de não morrer', from the book Olhos D'água (2014), by Conceição Evaristo, illustrates the reality of pain, exclusion, and violence of the black population of Brazil, who is routinely neglected by society. Guiding the theoretical framework are the thoughts of Candido (1995), Rama (2015), Schwarz (1983), Dalcastagnè (2008, 2012), Nascimento (2006), Mbembe (2018), among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text proposes to think about Brazil in a journey through Brazilian music. The legacy of the 1922 Week of Modern Art questions not only modernism, but also how we can think about Brazil and its specific culture. The text makes an overview of recent Brazilian music using methods of reading and analysis in studies that relate theology and literature. It focuses mainly on the lyrics of the songs, including religious music, highlighting aspects of social criticism that make us think of a different Brazil, without discrimination and with democratic spaces for coexistence. The songs are configured as true places for the formation of critical consciousness with a view to the effective participation of citizens in the process of building the country and its culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is a study of political criticism of the Língua de Trapo and Premeditando o Breque songs, performed through humor. Inserted in the underground field of the early 1980s, and, therefore, relatively distant from the rules imposed by the great music market in Brazil, these two groups, belonging to the so-called Vanguarda Paulista, created a critical counterpoint to the musical production of their time. Thus, by analyzing some of their songs, this study seeks to highlight some aspects of humor as a procedure of cultural and political criticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay sets out to analyze the vectors of continuity and reconfiguration of the Portuguese empire in the narratives of the Portuguese language in its two hegemonic spaces, and within a new sphere, that of the Arts. It will explore the language narratives as they materialized in the Museu da Língua Portuguesa in São Paulo, and in the convoluted trajectory of its homologous museum's projects in Lisbon. The main focus of this comparative analysis is how Africa--the one that belongs to the contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian imaginaries--has been represented in these museums. The object of analysis is therefore the imagination of Africa in Brazil and Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents an analysis of the "charleston" dance, created by the African-Americans in the 1920s, its origins and massive influence in the Brazilian social and cultural life. Based on an article written by the journalist Horácio da Cunha and published on the Afro-Brazilian newspaper "O clarim d'alvorada" in 1926, the author elaborates comments on the enthusiastic reception of the dance by a large part of the public and the criticism made by some social strata. The ambivalent reaction to the novelty on the Afro-Brazilian media is also noted, as well as the cultural exchange among African American and Afro-Brazilian people.

This essay examines the relationship between Brazilian writer Jorge Amado's works and other French writers and the juxtaposition of truth and fiction. The author describes Amado's life in France during his exile from Brazil and the support he received from several prominent French authors at the time. The stereotypical attitude of French critics toward Brazil and their ignorance of the themes of social criticism in Amado's works are also discussed.

This paper briefly outlines how the political scenario and the mobilization of different actors have contributed to the construction of a public health policy in response to the AIDS epidemics in Brazil. Three factors are presented and discussed: the political context of the 1980s, characterized by redemocratization, growth of social movements, and consolidation of the Brazilian health care reform; the socio-cultural context of the 1970s and 1980s, characterized by achievement of individual freedom, which was key to the organization of the AIDS movement; and finally the actions carried out in the international scenario to support the sustainability of the Brazilian domestic policy and the reinforcement of a global response to face the epidemics in lower-middle income economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the judicial system in the eyes of the media. The author argues that both entities, while often at odds with one another, should begin to work with each other so as to effectively contribute to the strengthening of rights granted by the state. The article presents the case of Brazil, in which a study showed that, while public power and authority was on the rise, the amount of information available to the public was still lacking. The author believes that, while such a discomposition of the judicial system is taking place, a new one will form which will, in turn, strengthen democratic institutions.

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This article looks at the way the Brazilian writer and educator Nísia Floresta addresses issues of race and class within her construction of nationhood. This is achieved through a consideration of the specific subject of maternal breast-feeding as discussed by Floresta in two texts, written in Brazil and France, respectively. A comparison of these works reveals a very different engagement with race and class factors in determining women's claim to citizenship. Floresta, in common with early 19th-century European feminism, believed this claim to lie within the domestic sphere, primarily in the role of mother and educator. The article considers how, as a vital aspect of that role, she portrays maternal breast-feeding as both natural and patriotic. It also highlights the extent to which Floresta was influenced by the prevailing concerns of her contemporaries regarding the risks of wet nursing and the threat posed by household slaves, before going on to consider how this discourse leads Floresta to exclude black slave women from her vision of patriotic motherhood, while acknowledging the maternity of women of all classes in a European context. Patriotic concerns, shaped by racial prejudices, overshadow Floresta's feminism, prohibiting the kind of unifying discourse of motherhood, which she claimed to profess. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the state of the urban reform movement in Brazil. In 1987, urban popular movements from various regions of the country gathered together to draw up the so-called Urban Reform Proposal. This was possible because any groups supported by 30,000 people was allowed to submit popular amendments to the National Constituent Assembly, which is responsible for drawing up the newest constitution of the country. Urban popular movements in the country are not coordinated on a national level, but are isolated due to their differing specific demands and their scattered geographical locations. In Brazil, urban land is subject to intense speculation with a resulting increase in housing costs, infrastructure costs, transport journey length and spatial segregation. The Urban Reform Movement demands legislation to prevent the speculative withholding of unused urban land. Other demands include the modification of certain private property ownership rights and the regularization of land ownership rights. Another aspect of the proposal concerns the management of urban affairs. The movement understands urban reform to refer not only to popular participation in community councils or state-created forums.