Comments on: The Black President Before Obama

By: thais lips zenthon

thais lips zenthon — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:28:46 +0000

The Black President – Sci-fi in the Fashion of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne
Written in 1926 by the famous Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato ‚Äì A black man running for the presidency of the US against a feminist woman in the year 2228.
PR Log (Press Release) ‚Äì Jan 07, 2010 ‚Äì Tha√Øs Lips Zenthon, http://www.translationsdecoder.com, has just signed a contract for translation into English and copyrights of “The Black President” in the US market.
This novel is not a hymn for the sake of racial purity, but a metaphor of segregation and acculturation, a story that tells how the black community is driven to assuming the ethnical values of the whites.
More about the book can be read at its blog http://lobatoblackpresident.blogspot.com/2010/01/sci-fi- … and at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Presidente_Negro.
Tha√Øs Zenthon is looking for the best publisher to release what can already be considered a best-seller.

By: José Murilo

José Murilo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:38:26 +0000

Really proud that this post at Global Voices got linked by Andrew Sullivan. Daily Dish rocks!

By: Joe Perez

Joe Perez — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:44:44 +0000

I also posted a blog on this book, suggesting its link in vision-logic cognition…

http://joe-perez.com/2008/06/scary-visions-in-brazilian-sci-fi-book-coincidence-prophecy-or-vision-logic/

By: Carl Youngblood

Carl Youngblood — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:30:08 +0000

I don’t think you should be too hard on Lobato for his eugenicist tendencies. The eugenics movement was basically accepted as good and enlightened by most well-informed people of the time, and many eugenicist policies continued in the US well into the 60s.

For an interesting article about the eugenics movement, see this:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=962