Constellations of inequality : space, race, and utopia in Brazil /
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| Author / Creator: | Mitchell, Sean T., author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | xiii, 255 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11391239 |
| Summary: | Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize <br> <br> <br> <br> 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, leaving many more threatened with displacement. Completed in 1990, this vast undertaking in one of Brazil's poorest regions has provoked decades of conflict and controversy.<br> <br> <br> <br> Constellations of Inequality tells this story of technological aspiration and the stark dynamics of inequality it laid bare. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among descendants of escaped slaves, military-civilian competition in the launch program, and international intrigue. Throughout, he illuminates Brazil's changing politics of inequality and examines how such inequality is made, reproduced, and challenged. How people conceptualize and act on the unequal conditions in which they find themselves, he shows, is as much a cultural and historical matter as a material one. Deftly broadening our understanding of race, technology, development, and political consciousness on local, national, and global levels, Constellations of Inequality paints a portrait of contemporary Brazil that will interest a broad spectrum of readers. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 255 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226499260 022649926X 9780226499123 022649912X 9780226499437 |