1. Introduction and Chapter 1:
1.1. Humor and class-based suffering
1.1.1. Humor as a "hidden transcript" or "weapon of the weak"
1.1.2. Form of power that is both conservative and liberatory
1.2. Formation of power in slums of Brazil based on history of class differences.
1.2.1. Shanytowns are the slums in Brazil where people live in poverty
1.2.2. "Embodied effects of [lack of] power"
1.3. Power
1.3.1. Sahlins
1.3.2. Foucalt
1.3.3. Hegemony/ruling:
1.3.3.1. Upper-class interests accepted by lower classes against whose interests they operate, who indeed subordinate habit forming
1.3.3.2. lower classes don't directly confront upper
1.3.4. Carnival
1.3.4.1. Everyday humor represented people of shanytown, not the carnival
1.3.4.2. Men had more freedom than women
1.3.4.3. Upturning the social order
1.4. Historical Backround
1.4.1. Political:
1.4.1.1. Monarchy in Portugal, military leaders, democracy, conservatives, liberals, Marxists, socialist.
1.4.1.2. Sao Paulo industrial power
1.4.1.3. Rio de Janeiro is civil: servants and trade
1.4.2. Economical:
1.4.2.1. Slave trade, sugar, coffee
1.4.2.2. Class divides as a result of lack of land reform
2. Chapter 2: Aesthetics of Domination
2.1. Independence
2.1.1. Gloria and her mother both wanted to be independent
2.1.2. By being independent=new jobs
2.1.3. Working wages very low
2.1.4. Middle class defined by paying others for doing their manual labor
2.1.5. Change in division of class
2.1.5.1. Relationships built between employee and employer
2.2. Slave-like
3. Chapter 3: Color-blind, Erotic Democracies etc.
3.1. Race vs. Class
3.1.1. Eliana seen with white grandson
3.1.2. Ana Flavia Pecanha Azeredo
3.2. White Privellage
3.2.1. Cororas
3.3. Black Bodies
3.4. Laughter out of Place
3.4.1. Black women and mixed race attain low income...bottom of the class
3.4.1.1. Surrounded with humor to mask the true root of problem