GEOG 2075 Lecture Notes - Consumerism, Ipanema, Egalitarianism
5 Dec 2013
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Liz bondi & mona domosh on the contours of public space: a tale of three women. Eugene robinson on the beach in ipanema. Reading questions: in his article on the beach at ipanema, eugene robinson encounters people in brazil that don"t feel race is a particularly dominant part of life in brazil. By the end of the article, what is his opinion of this perspective: his opinion was ignoring race doesnt work any better than being obsessed about it. To not acknowledge race, it holds them down more and deny them awareness and language to talk about it and anger to do something about it. In america skin colour meant race and brazil race meant nothing but colour meant everything. This though led to women becoming paranoid of violence against them, though it did allow the female public space to widen larger than the usual museum, concert, etc.
