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Laughter out of place :

Goldstein, Donna M.

Laughter out of place : race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / Donna M. Goldstein. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xxiii, 349 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - California series in public anthropology .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Laughter out of place -- The aesthetics of domination -- Color-blind erotic democracies, black consciousness politics, and the black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- No time for childhood -- State terror, gangs, and everyday violence in Rio de Janeiro -- Partial truths, or, the carnivalization of desire -- What's so funny about rape?

0520235967 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0520235975 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Marginality, Social--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
Poor--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
Poor--Humor.--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro
Slums--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
Violence--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
Sex--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.


Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Race relations.

HN290.R5 / G58 2003

305.5/68/098153
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