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
    Subject Term:
    Blacks, Race relations, Social conditions, Economic development, Land tenure, South America, Equality, Quilombos, Political aspects, Alcântara (Brazil), Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara, and Astronautics
    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.

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