Description
A native of Brazil's impoverished northeast, Freire developed adult literacy training techniques that involved consciousness-raising, encouraging peasants and newly urban peoples to see themselves as active citizens who could transform their own lives. Freire's work for state and national government agencies in Brazil in the early 1960s eventually aroused the suspicion of the Brazilian military, as well as of U.S. government aid programs. Political pressures led to Freire's brief imprisonment, following the military coup of 1964, and then to more than a decade and a half in exile. During this period, Freire continued his work in Chile, Nicaragua, and postindependence African countries, as well as in Geneva with the World Council of Churches and in the United States at Harvard University.
Andrew J. Kirkendall's evenhanded appraisal of Freire's pioneering life and work, which remains influential today, gives new perspectives on the history of the Cold War, the meanings of radicalism, and the evolution of the Left in Latin America.
About the Author
Andrew J. Kirkendall is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and author of Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469622248
Author Andrew J. Kirkendall
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press