Florestan Fernandes

Florestan Fernandes (born July 22, 1920 in São Paulo ; † August 10, 1995 there ) was a Brazilian sociologist and politician ( PT ).

Life

Fernandes came from a poor background; On the advice of friends, he began studying at the University of São Paulo in 1941 , where he received his doctorate ten years later . With his criticism of Gilberto Freyre's race theory, he became one of the most important sociologists in Brazil.

He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University , the University of Toronto and Yale University . From 1986 to 1995 Fernandes was a member of the State of São Paulo in the Chamber of Deputies of the Brazilian Parliament .

The library of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of São Paulo bears his name. In 1964 and 1996 he was awarded the Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura .

Major works

Fernandes has published over 50 books and hundreds of magazine articles.

• Organização social dos Tupinambá (1949)
• A função social da guerra na sociedade Tupinambá (1952)
• A etnologia ea sociologia no Brasil (1958)
• Fundamentos empíricos da explicação sociológica (1959)
• Mudanças sociais no Brasil (1960)
• Folclore e mudança social na cidade de São Paulo (1961)
• A integração do negro na sociedade de classes (1964)
• Sociedade de classes e subdesenvolvimento (1968)
• Capitalismo dependente e Classes Sociais na América Latina (1973)
• A investigação etnológica no Brasil e outros ensaios (1975)
• A revolução burguesa no Brasil: Ensaio de Interpretação Sociológica (1975)
• Da Guerrilha ao Socialismo: A Revolução Cubana (1979)
• O que é Revolução (1981);
• Poder e Contrapoder na America Latina (1981).

Writings in German

• The integration of the negro into class society . tape 1 . Gehlen, Bad Homburg 1969, DNB  456608281 , OCLC 3160390 (Portuguese: A integração do negro na sociedade de classes . Translated by Jürgen Gräbener ).
• The Integration of the Negro in Class Society: On the Threshold of a New Age . In: Contributions to the sociology and social studies of Latin America . tape 2 . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1977, DNB  550305580 , OCLC 631047364 (Portuguese: A integração do negro na sociedade de clases .).

Web links

• Literature by and about Florestan Fernandes in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Literature by and about Florestan Fernandes in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Literature by and about Florestan Fernandes in the catalog of the German National Library