Florestan Fernandes

Florestan Fernandes ( born July 22, 1920 in São Paulo, † August 10, 1995 ) was a Brazilian sociologist and politician ( PT).

Fernandes came from a poor family; on the advice of friends, he began in 1941 to study at the University of São Paulo, where he received his doctorate ten years later. With his criticism of Gilberto Freyres race theory, he became one of the most important sociologists of Brazil.

He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, at the University of Toronto and Yale University. From 1986 to 1995 Fernandes was a member of the Brazilian parliament.

The Library of the Faculty of Arts, University of São Paulo bears his name.

Fonts on German

• The Integration of the Negro in the class society. 1, Gehlen, Bad Homburg, 1969 ( Original title: A Integração do negro na sociedade de classes, translated by Jürgen Gräbener ), DNB 456 608 281, OCLC 3,160,390th
• The Integration of the Negro in the class society: On the threshold of a new era. In: Contributions to the Sociology and Social Studies of Latin America. 2, Fink, Munich 1977 ( Original title: A Integração do negro na sociedade de clases ), DNB 550 305 580, OCLC 631,047,364th