"Deficient Education," "Academic Questions," and Student Movements: Universities and the Politics of the Everyday in Brazil's Military Dictatorship, 1969–1979.

HISTORY of dictatorships; BRAZILIAN politics & government; STATE-sponsored terrorism; STATE crimes; HISTORY of censorship; POLITICAL persecution; RESISTANCE to government; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century

As the globally eventful year of 1968 drew to a close, Brazilian university students living in what was then a four-year-old dictatorship faced two new challenges that would profoundly alter student politics and resistance on campuses in the coming decade. The more infamous was Ato Institucional 5 (Institutional Act No. 5, or AI-5), which Brazil's military regime decreed on December 13, 1968 (a Friday). History and historiography have rightfully acknowledged AI-5 as ushering in the most repressive and authoritarian phase of Brazil's military dictatorship, with the regime closing the national congress and dramatically escalating state-sponsored violence and political silencing in ways that exponentially intensified earlier forms of repression and censorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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