Author: Cape Town to Rio De Janeiro Ocean Race, 1st 1971Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Race to Rio
Author: David SeowPublisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814757616
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Joseph Schooling’s race to the Olympics began when he was still a boy. With the support and love of Mum and Dad, he dedicated himself to being the best swimmer he could be. From triumphant victories to devastating defeats, Joseph never gave up no matter how discouraged he got, and he finally proved that no dream is too big for a boy when he won Singapore's first Olympic Gold medal.
Defiant Geographies
Author: Lorraine LeuPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil’s first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its postabolition whitening ideology took on material form in the urban development project that staged Latin America’s first World’s Fair. The book explores official efforts to reorganize space that equated modernization with racial progress. It also considers the ways in which black and blackened subjects mobilized their own spatial logics to introduce alternative ways of occupying the city. Leu unpacks how the spaces of the urban poor are racialized, and the impact of this process for those who do not fit the ideal models of urbanity that come to define the national project. Defiant Geographies puts the mutual production of race and space at the heart of scholarship on Brazil’s urban development and understands urban reform as a monumental act of forgetting the country’s racial past.
First Trans-South Atlantic Race
Author: Cape Town to Rio De Janeiro Ocean Race, 1st 1971Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Cape to Rio
Author: Frank Thomson RobbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yacht racing
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Rio 1971
Author: Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses
Author: Andrew Barton PatersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Brazilian American
Author: Race and the Brazilian Body
Author: Jennifer Roth-GordonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520293800
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Brazil's "comfortable racial contradiction"--"Good" appearances : race, language, and citizenship -- Investing in whiteness: middle-class practices of linguistic discipline -- Fears of racial contact : crime, violence, and the struggle over urban space -- Avoiding blackness : the flip side of boa aparência -- Making the mano : the uncomfortable visibility of blackness in politically conscious Brazilian hip hop -- Conclusion : "seeing" race
Toward a Global Idea of Race
Author: Denise Ferreira Da SilvaPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Looking at the United States and Brazil, she argues that modern subjects are formed in philosophical accounts that presume two ontological moments—historicity and globality—which are refigured in the concepts of the nation and the racial, respectively. By displacing historicity’s ontological prerogative, Silva proposes that the notion of racial difference governs the present global power configuration because it institutes moral regions not covered by the leading post-Enlightenment ethical ideals—namely, universality and self-determination. By introducing a view of the racial as the signifier of globalit y,Toward a Global Idea of Race provides a new basis for the investigation of past and present modern social processes and contexts of subjection. Denise Ferreira da Silva is associate professor of ethnic studies at University of California, San Diego.
Globalizing Cities
Author: Peter MarcusePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444399616
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.