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bomdiaeboanoite: Courtesy of unaguerrasinfondo: This is Carolina Maria De Jesus. She is responsible for writing one of the greatest primary sources of Brazilian and Latin American History, Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus. Child of the Dark is the edited version of Maria’s personal journals, which were written on scraps of paper that she collected as a trash picker. The book focuses on her struggle to survive as a mother of three in a São Paulo favela. Her book is one of the only first-hand accounts of favela life in existence. READ IT reblogging for reading rec

bomdiaeboanoite:

Courtesy of unaguerrasinfondo:

This is Carolina Maria De Jesus. She is responsible for writing one of the greatest primary sources of Brazilian and Latin American History, Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus. Child of the Dark is the edited version of Maria’s personal journals, which were written on scraps of paper that she collected as a trash picker. The book focuses on her struggle to survive as a mother of three in a São Paulo favela. Her book is one of the only first-hand accounts of favela life in existence. READ IT

reblogging for reading rec

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