In this the second of two proposed panels in this session, Abner Sotenos will explore black cinema activism, the impact of the ideology of racial democracy, and black cinema during the dictatorship. For his part, Luiz Paulo Ferraz will examine how the dictatorship affected the lives of indigenous people. In doing so, he highlights the importance of the new forms of Indigenous resistance that emerged during the military dictatorship to understand the current strategies of the Indigenous peoples in their ongoing struggles for land, rights, and environmental protection. Daniel McDonald traces the rise and fall of the National Housing Bank (BNH, Banco Nacional de Habitação), which he argues re-shaped Brazilian cities of all sizes through funding of public housing, acquisition of private homes, and urban infrastructure projects until its demise amid financial crisis and corruption scandals in 1986, just one year after the restoration of civilian rule. Finally, Andre Pagliarini looks at the contested politics of memory surrounding the period of military. He discusses ways that the far-right movement associated with President Jair Bolsonaro — Bolsonarismo — sought to shape public perception of the country’s last period of military rule, offering tentative conclusions as to why Bolsonaro failed to bring popular perceptions of democracy in line with his own authoritarian views. Victoria Langland, whose work has focused on memory, the student movement, and the dictatorship in Brazil, will discuss and chair papers in this second panel.