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Notes on My Trip to Paraty and São Paulo, Brazil

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Robert Jones, Jr.
Oct 29, 2024
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The main bookstore at the 2024 Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty had a stack of Os Profetas at the front entrance.

It’s not often that I get a chance to spend time in a majority Black nation. I have, in fact, only been to three: South Africa, Jamaica, and Brazil.

In each of those places, the Black people move with a different kind of knowing as co…

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