Brazil Studies Section: Who Cares? Histories of Care and Caring in Brazil

Conference on Latin American History 60
Sunday, January 10, 2027: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Bayside A (Sheraton New Orleans, 4th Floor)
Chairs:
Courtney Campbell, University of Birmingham
José Juan Pérez Meléndez, University of California, Davis and European University Institute
Papers:
Enslaved Wet Nurses, Stratified Reproduction, and the Politics of Infant Feeding in 19th-Century Rio de Janeiro
Cassia Roth, University of California, Riverside
An Act of Care: Choreographing Race, Gender, and Domestic Labor Advocacy in the Teatro Experimental do Negro of Rio de Janeiro, 1944–55
Cassie Osei, Bucknell University
From Fallen Women to Seasoned Professionals: Discourses of Exploitation and Empowerment in Rio de Janeiro’s Mangue Republic, 1954–74
Meg Weeks, University of Florida
Expressing Care: The Work of “Donors” to Human Milk Banks, 1930–90
Victoria Langland, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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