Constellations of inequality : space, race, and utopia in Brazil /

Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Sean T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Temas:
Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara.
Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara
Quilombos > Brazil > Alcântara > Government relations.
Economic development projects > Political aspects > Brazil > Alcântara.
Launch complexes (Astronautics) > Brazil > Alcântara.
Black people > Land tenure > Brazil > Alcântara.
Equality > Brazil > Alcântara.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Black people > Land tenure
Economic development projects > Political aspects
Equality
Launch complexes (Astronautics)
Race relations
Social conditions
Alcântara (Brazil) > Race relations.
Alcântara (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Brazil > Alcântara
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: relaunching Alcântara
  • Mimetic convergence and complementary hierarchy
  • Alcântara in space and time
  • Interpreting an explosion
  • Expertise and inequality
  • Racialization and race-based law
  • The making of race and class
  • Space at the edge of the Amazon
  • Conclusion: space and utopia.

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