More than folk tales, Brazilian folklore is a testimony to the country’s cultural history. Characters such as Saci-Pererê, Curupira, Iara or Boto reveal the fusion of Indigenous, African and European traditions. Far from disappearing, these mythical beings continue to reinvent themselves and engage with the present, preserving the identity of […]
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The double oppression of immigrant women in the UK
There is street-level racism where you are subjected to racial attacks or racist language. But there is also institutional racism: in the education system, in the criminal justice system including the police, and the immigration system.
A Bolivian in London: building, cleaning and activism
He arrived in 2007 to master English and found precarious jobs. Cleaning humiliated him, so he became a self-employed builder. His past as a university protester in Bolivia stays with him. London, he says, is already feeling too small. _ Javier Duque “What it would take you years to […]
Subcontracted and silenced in British lecture halls
Thousands of Latin Americans in the United Kingdom survive as cleaning workers in academic institutions. A film shows their precarious working day and the indifference of students and university directors. Their struggle for dignity reveals the cracks in the neoliberal model in education. (The Prisma memoirs) Virginia Moreno Molina […]
Russian memoirs
In the introduction to an invaluable little collection of memoirs by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), the South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, provides important information about the author and his uneasy relationship with fellow revolutionaries in Russia before and after the Bolshevik Revolution. Sean Sheehan The book, first published […]
















