Laughter out of place : race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / Donna M. Goldstein.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:California series in public anthropology ; 9.
Main Author: Goldstein, Donna M.
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003], ©2003.
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 9.
Subjects:
Marginality, Social > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Poor > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Poor > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > Humor.
Slums > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Violence > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Sex > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Race relations.
Genre:
Humor.
Physical Description:xxiii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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?