Goldstein ch. 4 and 5

1. Chapter 4

1.1. Pedro Paulo's view that as long as a man's family is taken care of, infidelity was acceptable.

1.2. Pedro's need for a "good life", did not include "honest professions" which make only minimum wage.

1.3. High walls built in Sao Paulo to segregate classes, extermination of street children

1.4. The inward focus of the middle class sustained the class for years, a type of survival instinct.

1.5. Psychological reflection and therapeutic discourse was practiced among the middle class, in the lower class/poverty survival skills and swift family decisions (i.e. admonishment from the family for fights, etc).

1.6. Gloria's discipline , "being cruel to be kind" was to only keep her children safe and not fall into the hands of the gang that ran Felicidade Eterna. She had to change her ways by no longer able to beat her children into submission, as the gang leader forbid the beating of children.

1.7. The way Gloria treated her children would look abusive and cruel to middle and upper class members but when each child's life is on the line daily, treating them this way was the only way Glorida knew how to keep them safe and away from the drug dealers and street children killers.

2. Chapter 5

2.1. The stability and safety in the favela depended on the gang leader at the time.

2.2. Elitist liberalism, higher standards for the middle and upper class, complete separation from the poor.

2.3. Joining a gang was an option for younger men on making money without hard labor or "honest" work.

2.4. Favelas are excusive, not interested in outsiders "dirtying" their community. having a gang and gang leader allowed for exclusivicity.

2.5. corrupt police, "police-bandits"

2.6. Instead of government interventions for abuse, etc. the favelas had to take matters into their own hands, usually in the form of revenge.

2.7. Zones: "Blue" zones - high degree of state presence. "Green" zones: high degree of territorial presence and less state presence. "Brown" zonines: no state presence with no service from police or courts, primarily the shantytowns and favelas, yet these are the areas abused by police bandits.

2.8. because of the abuse by police and distrust of them, even the hard working, moral and trusting members of the favelas looked towards the gang members of the community for protection against the police

2.9. Religion's role in race relations. Women converting to pentacostalism, Catholicism (devotion to slave-saint Anastacia) and Catholicism traditional.

2.9.1. Women were more religious than men.

2.9.2. Racial self-esteem grew, and stronger positions were made on prejudice

2.9.3. Religion offered a break from the daily violence and worry. gave women especially a sense of belonging and relief. The communities' need for such relief and closeness to God has brought more church missions and member success in the "brown" zones than anywhere else in Rio.