text up! english + português

Scattershot thoughts on the beat diasporic concerns distilled, I hope, into something a little more digestible:

• On the English side, "Notes from the Hillside: Of Funk and Favelas in Rio de Janeiro", published for the "south" theme of the winter issue of The Harvard Advocate (full disclosure: I'm the prez).
• Em português, something I turned in last fall for a course on Brazilian civilization at the Université-Paris-8. Linguistic restraints hold back the prose from the deeper analysis and shinier polish of the English article.