Draft:Francisco de Oliveira

Francisco Maria Cavalcanti de Oliveira, most known as Chico de Oliveira (Recife, November 7, 1933 – São Paulo, July 10, 2019), was a brazilian sociologist.

After receiving a doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (1992), he participated in the initial group of researchers of the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) and was one of the founders of the Worker's Party, from which he parted ways in 2003.

Biography
Graduated in Social Sciences (1956) in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Recife, now Federal University of Pernambuco, he belonged to the technical teams of the Bank of the Northeast (1956 - 1957) and the Sudene agency (1959 - 1964), where he worked alongside Celso Furtado. After the 1964 coup d'état, he was imprisoned for two months. Afterwards, he left the city of Recife and entered into "self-exile" in Rio de Janeiro.

Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), he was retired from his position compulsorily through the AI-5 act. He joined the Cebrap (Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning) in 1970, after being invited by Octavio Ianni. The initial group of Cebrap also included Boris Fausto, Cândido Procópio Ferreira de Camargo, Carlos Estevam Martins, Elza Berquó, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Francisco Weffort, José Arthur Giannotti, José Reginaldo Prandi, Juarez Rubens Brandão Lopes, Leôncio Martins Rodrigues, Luciano Martins, Octavio Ianni, Paul Singer and Roberto Schwarz.

Works
Stand-out works from within his oeuvre:


 * Hegemonia às avessas: economia, política e cultura na era da servidão financeira. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2010. Francisco de Oliveira, Ruy Braga and Cibele Rizek.
 * A economia brasileira: crítica à razão dualista / O ornitorrinco (Boitempo)
 * Elegia para uma re(li)gião (Paz e Terra),
 * O elo perdido: classe e identidade de classe em Salvador (Brasiliense),
 * Os direitos do antivalor (Vozes),
 * Os cavaleiros do antiapocalipse, em colaboração com Álvaro Comin (Entrelinhas/Cebrap),
 * Os sentidos da democracia, em colaboração com Maria Célia Paoli (Vozes).