In the sixth installment of the Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Run for It: Stories Of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom by author Marcelo d'Salete. This graphic novel tells unforgettable stories about Afro-Brazilian slaves who rebelled against oppression.
GILS is a reading group for K-16 educators to literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. This year’s theme is Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text. See registration for more information!
This workshop was facilitated by Samuel Rocha Ferreira. Samuel is a Ph.D. student in the History department at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his BA and master's degree in history at the Federal University of São Paulo (Brazil). His master's thesis was awarded as the best in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of São Paulo in 2020.
At Pitt, he won the Latin American Social and Public Policy Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. Working in Latin America and Global Labour History as academic fields, his research investigates the relationship between different types of indigenous compulsory labor in the supply chain of chocolate and exotic drugs collected in the Brazilian Amazon forest in the first half of the 19th century.