1. Relaunching Alcântara: space, race, technology, and inequality in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mitchell,Sean T. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Chicago: University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 272 p., Analyzes the relations between macropolitical changes and the lives of people in Alcantara. Chapters detail: (1) the changing social, economic, and ecological lives of Alcantara's villagers; (2) the contested effects of recent multicultural governance in Brazil--specifically remanescentes das comunidades dos quilombos (escaped-slave descended communities); (3) how state-sanctioned experts in Alcantara help shape people's understanding of the region's deep social inequality; and (4) the circulation of rumors of US plans to undermine Brazil's space program and invade the Amazon forest.