1. Ch 2: The Aesthetics of Domination - Class, Culture and the Lives of the Domestic Workers
1.1. Common jobs available to lower class women
1.1.1. Domestic worker
1.1.1.1. empregada
1.1.1.2. Faxineira (heavy-duty cleaner)
1.1.2. Many workers want indepence from employer
1.1.2.1. travel for work
1.1.2.2. Gloria likes employers they have conversations while she is around and they help her in hard times
1.1.2.3. Live-in work takes away freedom
1.1.3. Long hours
1.1.3.1. 14-15 hour days
1.1.4. Paid very low wages
1.1.4.1. Gloria is lucky to be paid 5 minimum wages
1.1.5. Racism
1.1.5.1. Afro- Brazilian have trouble getting good jobs
1.1.5.2. many jobs look to hire good looking workers
1.1.5.3. Nilda Beth's son raising her standing in society
1.1.5.3.1. Gloria did not respect Nilda like her other employers
1.2. Different classes
1.2.1. Lower class
1.2.1.1. mostly domestic workers
1.2.1.2. serve upper and middle class
1.2.1.2.1. looks at employers as superior based on class, race and gender pg. 82
1.2.1.3. behaviorisms are different
1.2.1.3.1. handwriting, talk and movements
1.2.1.3.2. didn't know how to be served pg. 93
1.2.1.4. overcrowded underfunded public schools provide education
1.2.1.5. many males join gangs, some women turn to sex work
1.2.2. Middle class
1.2.2.1. hires domestic worker(s)
1.2.2.1.1. important way of showing wealth
1.2.2.2. have to be able to pay someone else to do labor
1.2.2.3. never taught to be able to take care of themselves
1.2.2.3.1. cook, laundry, clean, ect..
1.2.3. Upper class
1.2.3.1. Has many worker
1.2.3.1.1. chauffeur, nanny, cook, empregada....
1.2.3.1.2. don't have to worried about keeping their workers like middle class
1.2.3.2. private schools for children
1.3. Poverty in Rio
1.3.1. "City of extremes" pg. 70.
1.3.1.1. closer to a two class system because has small middle class with big lower and upper classes
1.3.1.2. Seeing more women and children in work place
1.3.2. Little separation from slavery
1.3.2.1. Gloria was a slave as a child
1.3.2.2. horrible life
1.3.2.2.1. especially outside of the city
1.3.2.3. Slaves could be cared about by masters
1.3.3. White elites
1.3.3.1. Historically wanted to be like western Europe and North America with predominate white population
1.3.3.1.1. Travelled to Paris for ideas of what "civilized" looked like pg. 78
1.3.3.2. Moved poor and Afro- Brazilians out of center city
1.3.3.3. Historically felt insecure about mixed population
1.4. Domestic worker/ employer relationship
1.4.1. Employer will provide help to worker and their families in times of need
1.4.2. Domestic workers can become close to being like family but still need do jobs
1.4.3. Domestic worker often described to talk differently
2. Ch 3: Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicdade Eterna
2.1. Races
2.1.1. looks are how races discriminated
2.1.1.1. blackness is looked at to be ugly
2.1.1.2. whiteness=wealth
2.1.2. never had a civil rights movement like the US
2.1.2.1. race is not discussed out right "impolite" pg. 130
2.1.3. color spectrum helps divide racial identities
2.1.4. Black Cinderella
2.1.4.1. governs daughter beaten because of racism against her dark skin
2.1.4.2. called Cinderella cause attackers felt as if she was like an impostor at the ball
2.1.5. author given 2 kisses by white male employer when Gloria and friend were not due to skin color
2.1.5.1. didn't say good bye properly to workers
2.1.5.2. segregates in the work place
2.2. Coroas
2.2.1. older richer whiter men
2.2.2. poor women look to seduce them to "get ahead" pg. 109
2.2.3. fairy tale dream of favela women
2.2.3.1. social mobility
2.2.4. seek white man to whiten themselves and offspring
2.3. Black sexuality
2.3.1. Brazilian black women exotic and pathological pg. 112
2.3.2. "hot" mulata
2.3.2.1. curvy
2.3.2.2. samba dancing
2.3.2.3. popular with porn
2.3.3. dates back to slave time
2.3.4. not discussed