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Constellations of inequality : space, race, and utopia in Brazil /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Sean T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara.
Quilombos > Brazil > Alcântara > Government relations.
Economic development projects > Political aspects > Brazil > Alcântara.
Launch complexes (Astronautics) > Brazil > Alcântara.
Alcântara (Brazil) > Race relations.
Alcântara (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Blacks > Land tenure > Brazil > Alcântara.
Equality > Brazil > Alcântara.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.