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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Maxine L. Margolis Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro . By Pino Julio César . Contributions in Latin American Studies, no. 10 . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1997 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 199 pp. Cloth, $55.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 194–195.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Amilcar A. Pereira The Invention of the Favela . By Licia do Prado Valladares . Translated by Robert N. Anderson Latin America in Translation / en Traducción / em Tradução . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2019 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Maria Lais Pereira da Silva Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro . By McCann Bryan . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 249 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright ©...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Brodwyn Fischer Abstract This article focuses on the relationship between the political Left and Brazil’s urban poor by exploring the paradoxical role of Brazilian communists in the massive land struggles that mobilized Rio’s favelas against forced eviction in the mid-twentieth century. Without...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 387–388.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Roderick J. Barman Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas . By Gay Robert . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1994 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . 191 pp. Cloth , $44.95 . Paper , $17.95 . Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (3): 448–450.
Published: 01 August 1963
... at the Offices of the Social Service. “Welfare agency!” she exclaims, “Welfare for whom?” And when the Health Department put on a street show to encourage people not to use the river water where snails were making them ill, it left no medicine for the 160 positive cases reported from the single favela. One...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 768–769.
Published: 01 November 2016
... testimony? This is what Robert Gay, a sociologist of Brazil, has successfully done in his extended conversations with “Bruno”—a low-level Brazilian drug dealer, inmate, and inside expert on the Comando Vermelho (CV), the dominant drug gang at work in Rio de Janeiro's favelas and prison labyrinth over...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 721–751.
Published: 01 November 1996
... in the countryside, vast numbers of people migrated to the cities, where many had to settle in favelas, or shantytowns. Fully supportive of nationalist developmentalism yet committed to social justice, a small but influential group of clerics began to challenge the neo-Christendom model and to advocate structural...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 249–258.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in 1936 by Carlos Galhardo (Catello Carlos Guagliardi), the son of Italian immigrants, and composed by Ataulfo Alves, a smooth, well-dressed Afro-Brazilian artist, and a white musician named Roberto Martins. The song, bouncy and upbeat, glorifies the purportedly happy life of Mangueira, the iconic favela...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (3): 530–531.
Published: 01 August 1998
... picture illustrates, favela houses are shacks precariously built with wood and other materials picked from the garbage. The choice of this cover for the American edition is a strange and unfortunate one, since it perpetuates the very stereotyped favelada image of Carolina that the study fixes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 730–731.
Published: 01 November 2020
... was striking to me as a sociologist was how eerily similar they seemed to contemporary favelas: sociogeographic spaces contiguous to upscale neighborhoods where poor people of color are tolerated and allowed a few master class privileges so long as they do not pose a fundamental challenge to the socioeconomic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 355–356.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in improving quality of life and advancing a sense of dignity and empowerment. Still, violence and general distrust speak to the fragmented experience of urban dwellers. In the second part, longitudinal studies (as Janice Perlman showed in her book Favela [2010]) are key to tracking changing strategies...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 762–763.
Published: 01 November 2020
... globalizing city is a topic that is also taken up by Bryan McCann in his chapter on the tensions over land use in Rio de Janeiro (p. 91). As McCann points out, while grassroots mobilizations have succeeded in warding off evictions, residents of Rio's favelas have been unable to gain the full protection...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 February 2011
.... At the heart of Fischer’s account lies the story of the emergence and permanence of favelas (Rio’s iconic hillside shantytowns) as informal or extralegal housing for the very poor alongside the “proper” city. She argues, in short, that favelas exist because their presence ultimately benefited a range of people...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 284–285.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., and Miguel Samper on nineteenth-century Bogotá, are here introduced to English-speaking audiences for the first time. For the contemporary period, the editors effectively interweave selections from Carolina Maria de Jesus’s celebrated memoir of life in the favelas of São Paulo with excerpts from oral...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 611–612.
Published: 01 November 1963
... satisfying the two classes that control the government and the seats of power. Finally, the author makes no bones about some of the more questionable elements of the Party line. The favelas of Bio are a good thing as they provide “una manera de ejercer presión” (p. 37). The suffering of the Northeast...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 304–305.
Published: 01 May 1967
... toward Latin America. However, with his knowledge of the volatile slum areas—the callampas and the favelas— and the slowness with which needed reforms have proceeded, this German author views the whole continent as verging on upheaval. The theme of revolution is a dominant one throughout the work...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 798–799.
Published: 01 November 1969
... of the most important phenomena of contemporary Latin American society have been the migration to the cities and the resulting urban squatter settlements. An understanding of Peruvian barriadas, Chilean callampas, Brazilian favelas, and their counterparts elsewhere is crucial to the study of political...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 681–682.
Published: 01 November 1995
... at headlong pace during the last 30 years and are now swollen, congested urban nightmares. Surrounding and infiltrating those cities are slums and favelas populated by poverty-stricken migrants recently arrived from the countryside, or those migrants’ children, These are the “superfluous,” “excess...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 714–716.
Published: 01 November 1995
... of objectivity in much contemporary social science research, reconstructing in its place what, following Richard Rorty, might better be described as an epistemology of solidarity. This epistemology is based, above all, on the author’s capacity to identify with the pain and suffering of the Brazilian favela...
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