1. Brazil and Race
1.1. light skin vs dark skin
1.2. visual cues
1.3. mesticagem: blending of american, iberian and african people into one single identity
1.4. no civil rights movement
1.5. no legal support to racism
1.6. class problem
1.7. black jokes
2. Cinderella
2.1. "getting ahead" means to seduce older, richer, whiter men (coroas)
2.2. long lasting financial support
2.3. breaks barriers of beauty, age, race and class
2.4. gives princess better life
2.5. cross racial and class boundaries
2.6. sexualized imagery
2.6.1. sexualizes black women
2.6.1.1. jezebel
2.6.1.2. sexual abuse of black women
3. Chapter 4 & 5
3.1. Gerson and Pedro Paulo
3.1.1. son died
3.1.1.1. wasn't their for him
3.1.1.1.1. cried
3.1.1.1.2. Gloria couldn't cry
3.1.2. men absent in family life
3.1.3. many men believe that women are responsible for being pregnant
3.1.4. hate against abortion and women who are not monogamous
3.1.5. men= put food on table; are able to have whatever other women they want
3.1.5.1. double standard
3.2. Male oppositional culture
3.2.1. justifying anger
3.2.2. gang life
3.2.2.1. irresistible
3.2.2.1.1. alternative to manual labor
3.2.3. controlling women
3.2.4. "street kids"
3.2.4.1. institutionalized
3.2.5. home is female domain
3.2.5.1. street is for impoverished
3.2.5.2. poor rob rich, women flirt with men, young deviate from rules, people disobey white people
3.3. Gloria and her methods
3.3.1. inhumane punishement
3.3.2. wanting kids to be adults
3.3.2.1. no childhood
3.3.2.1.1. not mistaken for street kids
3.3.2.1.2. burning or banishing
3.3.3. honest workers
3.4. Rio's extremes
3.4.1. vulnerability
3.4.2. hegemonic historical culture
3.4.3. drug delivery
3.4.4. police don't help because it is "private matters"
4. US and Race
4.1. more comfortable to discuss race
4.2. no discussion on class-based affirmative action
4.3. stereotypes
4.3.1. welfare women are african american
4.3.2. actually white woman have higher welfare rates
4.4. separate human types
4.5. legal support to racism
4.6. race problem
4.7. previous "one drop of blood" rule
5. Race
5.1. "embodied in everyday valuations of sexual attractiveness, and this attractiveness is gendered, racialized and class-oriented in ways that commodify black female bodies and white male economic, racial and class privilege"
5.2. racial identities
5.2.1. black (preto negro)
5.2.2. white (branco)
5.2.3. mixed (mulato
5.2.4. dark (escuro)
5.2.5. light (claro)
5.3. blackness associated with slavery
6. Erotic Paradise
6.1. Cinderella story
6.1.1. leads to sex slavery
6.1.2. new wave of brazil oppression
6.1.3. interracial sexuality