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How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

By Jordan Brasher, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography, Macalester College

‘Ours is the only city in Brazil where the Confederate flag flies,’ said a city council member in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste. A new law there bans ‘symbols that promote racist and segregationist ideas.’

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