Cliff Welch, Ph.D.

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This page lists a few of the current scholarly and professional projects now in progress.

Jôfre, Zé Rainha and the Brazilian Revolution, a book on land and labor issues in modern Brazil.

Soccer Class: The Rules of the Game in the U.S. and Brazil. A feature-length documentary video comparing youth soccer in both countries, co-produced with Toni Perrine.

"Peasant Mentalitees." Interviews with peasant and rural labor activists in Brazil.

"Recent Books on Brazil's Landless Laborers Movement." Collective review essay for the Latin American Research Review.

Review of The Time of Freedom by Cindy Forster for Labor: Working Class History of the Americas.

"Que grosseria! Brazilian Manners and Peasant Confrontatons, Before, During and After the Golpe" Paper to be presented at the University of Maryland symposium "The Cultures of Dictatorship: Historical Reflections on the Brazilian Golpe of 1964." October 2004.

"Brazilian Peasant Movements and Transnational Capital." Paper to be presented at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. October 2004.

"Peasants in Latin America: Looking Back, Moving Ahead." Issue theme proposal for Latin American Perspectives.

Resistance of the Landless: An historical and geographical reader. Documents collection on land struggle and peasant resistance in Brazil, 1500-2000.

"Invented Traditions: Connections and Disconnections in Brazilian Peasant Movement Heritage." An article for a roundtable discussion in Diálogos (Universidade de Maringá).

Bibliography, Movimento dos Sem Terra.

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