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Tent of Miracles
BRAZIL · 1977

Tent of Miracles

Nelson Pereira dos Santos
miscegenation racial identity intellectual legacy Brazilian culture social progress
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Synopsis

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only through miscegenation.

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