Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil
by
Sean T. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize
In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland...