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RACE RELATIONS FOR THE GLOBAL DIASPORA
Cultural Diversity,
Social Inequity, and the Pursuit of Health in Brazil and the United
States
An International
Consortium of Universities Co-Sponsored by FIPSE and CAPES
Directors:
Thomas J. Csordas, Carlos A. Steil, Sheila Peters, Mark A. Cravalho
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates in humanities, and Latin
American studies are invited to apply for this new program that will
allow travel to Brazil to study cultural diversity and social equality
and in relation to health at one of two prominent Brazilian
universities: the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre)
and the Federal University of Bahia (Salvador).
Brazil and the United States are societies characterized by profound
diversities and inequalities based on distinctions among gender, race,
class, ethnicity, and religion. Understanding the nature and
consequences of such social conditions is critical to the development of
students into mature scholars as well as citizens of their respective
nations and the world. A transnational interdisciplinary approach that
combines the strengths of the medical social sciences as practiced in
Brazilian and U.S. universities will equip students with the
intellectual tools to produce a critical analysis of cultural diversity
and social inequality. The results of this experience will be amplified
by the opportunity to study and compare two of the most diverse,
populous, productive, and culturally vibrant societies in today’s world.
Our program will develop training in two progressive phases:
1) Comparative
critical and theoretical analysis of diversity and inequality in
Brazilian and United States societies, and
2) Critical
focus of diversity and inequality as they affect health, illness, health
care, and healing. The participating universities will develop a common
curriculum drawing on knowledge from anthropology, sociology, and
psychology. We will collaboratively examine how race, class, gender,
ethnicity, and religion affect researchers and the people they study.
FISK UNIVERSITY AND THE RACE RELATIONS INSTITUTE ARE PLEASED TO WELCOME
OUR BRAZILIAN EXCHANGE STUDENTS WHO ARE PARTICPIATING IN THIS PROGRAM
THIS SEMESTER:
Ana Luisa Dias of Salvador, Bahia
Antonio Lima of Porto Alegre
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