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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452037603321

Autore

Arias Enrique Desmond

Titolo

Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro [[electronic resource] ] : Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2006

ISBN

1-4696-0513-9

0-8078-7737-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

364.177098153

Soggetti

Community organization

Crime

Drug traffic

Police corruption

Slums

Violence

Social Science

Violence - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Slums - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Crime - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Drug traffic - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Police corruption - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Community organization - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Social Conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE: Departure; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: Thinking about Social Violence in Brazil; 1 Setting the Scene: Continuities and Discontinuities in a "Divided City"; 2 Network Approach to Criminal Politics; 3 Tubarão; 4 Santa Ana; 5 Vigário Geral;



6 Comparative Analysis of Criminal Networks in Brazil and Latin America; 7 Theorizing the Politics of Social Violence; EPILOGUE: Rio 2005; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, this work examines the problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. It argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453837703321

Autore

Lemert Charles C. <1937-, >

Titolo

Dark thoughts : race and the eclipse of society / / Charles Lemert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

0-415-93445-1

0-203-95240-5

1-135-33696-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

344

Soggetti

Racism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

United States Race relations Psychological aspects

United States Social conditions 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. The beginnings of a millennium, 1990s -- part II. The last new century, 1890s -- part III. Between, before, and beyond, 1873-2020.

Sommario/riassunto

In Dark Thoughts, eminent sociologist Charles Lemert dares to say, and explain, what everyone already knows - that the modern world was built on the need of white people to pretend they are not as dark as the next person.Delving poignantly into the history and literature of domination, Lemert retells key moments of the twentieth-century by profiling figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Julia



Cooper, Nella Larson, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali. In a rare and unflinching look at his own complicated history, Lemert also explores his own racism, his struggle wi