The Cultures of Carnival: A Symposium – Gender Benders and Carnival Queens: A Slide Presentation
James Green
Friday, 25 Mar 2005 at 12:45 pm – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
James Green is an associate professor of history at Brown University and past-president of the Brazilian Studies Association. His research interests focus on Brazilian history and gender and sexuality in Latin America. His award-winning book, Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth- Century Brazil, 1999), is a cultural history of homosexuality in Brazil. In it Green devotes a chapter to describing and analyzing the homosexual appropriation of Rio's Carnival, from the elite masquerade balls of the 1930s, to the drag balls of the 1950s, to the samba school parades of the 1960s and beyond. For more information about the entire conference go to:http:// www.iastate.edu/~ceah/symposium_info.html
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