The Bartlett Summary
The author leaves out some major details I'd like to address. 1) The area where Freire was raised was the heartland of colonial slavery and sugar plantations via Portuguese and Dutch capital. This area also had some of the lowest literacy rates in the Americas and with a much deeper and wider range of racial and ethnic diveristy. 2) Freire very likely came across anti-colonial or decolonization writings or heard some discussions about it from resistance fighters seeking temporary shleter in Recife, Salvador, Natal and Fortaleza. 3) The complexity of political populism among leftists and rightists isn't properly addressed in the political summary, imposing too much of an Americans lens into perceiving the more nuanced circumstances of Brasilian politics. 4) Literacy in Brasil is still exceedingly low and misrepresented in Brasil at 92%, with far more likely numbers around 60-65% 5) It's very hard to tell the difference between liberal populists wh...