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The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil)

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Culture: The revision of history

Author:

Fábio Junior de Lima
(10 years old, Municipal School Ouro Verde, Ouro Verde Settlement, in Lagoa Grande, state of Pernambuco.) Reproduced with the permission of the MST, São Paulo

Title:

Brazil cries over its 500 years of history
(Brazil, represented by a map inside the iris of a human eye, cries over 500 years of its history. In each of the three tears, respectively a woman, a black and an Indian represent the three segments that were the most sacrificed by colonization.)

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Date:

November 2002

Resource ID:

BRAZILCR537

Children's drawings
Presented in 3 national contests. The Brazil we want: their life projects arising from the experience of dispossession and of a contingent life; Brazil, how old are you?: their revision of official historiography. Happy Birthday, MST: the impact of the Movement on their lives.
Else R P Vieira

See also: Drawings of the Landless Children: History under Revision

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