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876233
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Mitchell, Sean T.
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Constellations of inequality : : space, race, and utopia in Brazil /\ Sean T. Mitchell.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago, IL :: The University of Chicago Press,, 2017.
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, ©2017
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xiii, 255 pages :: illustrations, map ;; 23 cm
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022649912X
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: 022649926X
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: 9780226499123
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: 9780226499260
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9780226499437
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-244) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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. 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. Book jacket.
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Brasilien
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Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara.
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Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara.
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Blacks-- Land tenure-- Brazil-- Alcântara.
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Economic development projects-- Political aspects-- Brazil-- Alcântara.
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Equality-- Brazil-- Alcântara.
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Launch complexes (Astronautics)-- Brazil-- Alcântara.
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Quilombos-- Brazil-- Alcântara-- Government relations.
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15.85 history of America.
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Bauvorhaben
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Blacks-- Land tenure.
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Economic development projects-- Political aspects.
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Equality.
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Launch complexes (Astronautics)
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Race relations.
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Schwarze
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Social conditions.
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Soziale Ungleichheit
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Sozialer Konflikt
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Umsiedlung
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Alcântara (Brazil), Race relations.
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Alcântara (Brazil), Social conditions.
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Alcântara
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Brazil, Alcântara.
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Brazil.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.800981/21
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| LC Classification
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F2651.A34M583 2017
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