We Cannot Remain Silent

""We Cannot Remain Silent "is the most complete and comprehensive analysis ever made of the multiple paths and confluences amongst the political and cultural resistance in Brazil and in the USA after the military coup d'etat in Brazil in 1964. Based on new sources and a broad range of interviews, Professor James N. Green reveals unexpected coalitions, introduces new actors, and tells fascinating human stories. It is an obligatory reading and a tool to reach the truth about the background of torture and political killings carried out during 21 years of military dictatorship. The work is thus essential to understanding the struggle for human rights in Brazil then and now."--Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OAS

James N. Green is Professor of History and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He is the editor of Lina Penna Sattamini's A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil.