Trumpism in the Tropics: Far-Right Movements in Brazil and Latin America

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The ongoing wave of far-right populists across the hemisphere is making Latin American politics look more like the United States’. Contemporary far-right movements such as Bolsonarism in Brazil have been largely built around ideas and strategies imported from US far-right groups. That includes paleolibertarians, Christian fundamentalists, and alt-right supremacists. Moreover, the Latin American far right has become transnational in essence, operating across national borders and exchanging material and symbolic resources with one another. They all have embraced Trumpism and US-inspired culture wars as role models to construct a new political reality at home. The language of instruction will be English. This course will be a trilingual learning experience, reading and discussing opinions in Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese.