SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Favela Rising, Favela, Internalized Racism
23 Oct 2015
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Through western eyes: beauty was a commodity, t. w. e. : the females who wanted surgery have gone through some form of bullying: oppositional culture (ex. to be different as a political stance like being curvy instead of thin, ex. : the friend didn"t want sharon to go through the surgery because she thought she was pretty the way she was. Middle and upper classes to move behind higher walls. Role of children: brought into drug armies (often less charges), part of informal economy (begging, watching cars, running errands, etc. Literal death: child-shifting; the child may go to godparents the state only cares for those who are genuine orphans -- the children who had to say that their father was dead. Symbolic death: child cast to the street. Govt. ignored the slums; didn"t improve lives of those living there. Drugs played big role in favelas: children became involved with drug dealing, drug lords became role models for children.
