Brazilian legacies

"Engaging, highly personal introduction to contemporary Brazilian society by a leading US historian adopts a bottom-up perspective, emphasizing frustrations of popular aspirations to dignity and justice. Essays on various topics - race, mobility, marginal 'outsiders' (includes women),...

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1. Verfasser: Levine, Robert M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Armonk, NY u.a. Sharpe 1997
Schriftenreihe:Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean
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Zusammenfassung:"Engaging, highly personal introduction to contemporary Brazilian society by a leading US historian adopts a bottom-up perspective, emphasizing frustrations of popular aspirations to dignity and justice. Essays on various topics - race, mobility, marginal 'outsiders' (includes women), informal political culture and corruption, coping strategies of the poor, and popular culture. Draws on a rich array of scholarly perspectives, personal anecdotes, and newspaper clippings"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
Beschreibung:Literaturangaben
Beschreibung:IX, 209 S.
Ill., Kt.
24 cm
ISBN:0765600080
0-7656-0008-0
0765600099
0-7656-0009-9
9780765600097
978-0-7656-0009-7