African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
226 p., A cultural history of Rio de Janeiro's Cidade Nova from the arrival of the Portuguese court in 1808. The area became identified with Afro-descendents and Ashkenazi Jews, but it was also inhabited by Spanish, Italian and Portuguese immigrants. discusses intersections between literary imaginaries and urban experiences, involving topics like social segregation, cultural memory, spatial porosity, cognitive mapping, and the idea of the city as a palimpsest.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (master's)--Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Faculdade de Ciências e Letras da Universidade Estadual Paulista, 1998., 204 p.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
104 p, The history of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro begins in the final years of the nineteenth century as Brazil transitioned from an empire to a republic. As the nation continued to undergo dramatic political changes throughout the course of the twentieth century, the slums of its second largest city grew in size and number, in turn experiencing significant changes of their own. Initially, these communities were loosely incorporated squatter settlements that sprang up organically in order to house internal migrants and itinerant laborers. As they became more numerous and increasingly populated by a burgeoning urban underclass, favela residents began to organize internally, forming associações de moradores, or residents’ associations.
