chapters 2 and 3

1. hierarchies of beauty and social mobility

1.1. woman may overcome her undervalued dark skin by performing as a seductress

1.2. categories defining beauty and ugliness turn sexual attractiveness into a racial matter

1.3. whiteness is always more valued

2. Brazilian sexuality

2.1. Carnival brings tourist to Brazil for "hot" sex

2.2. image of the 'sexualized slave'

2.3. interracial sex distorts both popular and elite perceptions of race relations in Brazil

3. Discourses on race

3.1. scholars have avoided the subject of race

3.2. intimate area of social life

3.3. silence about race constitutes a cultural censorship.

4. earning a living wage

4.1. working a 6 day workweek

4.2. working 14 hours a day

4.3. doing heavy duty cleaning, backbreaking work

5. poverty in Rio De Janeiro

5.1. only 7% of manufacturing production jobs in Brazil

5.2. earnings in Rio De Janeiro fell 22% between 1976 and 1988

5.3. unequal distribution of wealth

5.4. two class system; no visual middle class

6. Colonial Period

6.1. racial dimension is always present

6.2. domestic workers are always considered lower class regardless of skin color

6.3. there is still a slavery status

7. limitation of academic capital

7.1. segregated schools

7.2. admission exams for public education

7.3. children who are poor often have to work to provide for families