"He looks more Brazilian than American."
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in title, tags, annotations or urlDeir El-Medina Sources - 0 views
Brazilians Welcome Obama As Their Own : NPR - 4 views
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Brazil was settled by waves of European immigrants and millions of African slaves brought there in chains. Their descendants make up the second-largest black population in the world after Nigeria.
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there's no hiding the fact that blacks are worse off than whites.
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Gus Hall (1910-2000): Stalinist operative and decades-long leader of Communist Party USA - 2 views
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The Stalinist apparatus in the Kremlin was able to carry out its taming of the American party in large measure by appropriating the mantle of the Russian Revolution. At the same time it exploited ideological and political weaknesses within the American party and the US labor movement in general, weaknesses that took the form of national provincialism and indifference to theory.
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By the time of the Great Depression, which brought new political opportunities and challenges in the US and elsewhere, the Stalinist grip on the American CP was complete.
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Equating Stalinism with Marxism, this group saw the crisis of the bureaucracy as proof that the building of a Marxist party in the working class was impossible.
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