Amy Chazkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Chazkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Chazkel |
| SIGNATURE | CHAZKEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rio de Janeiro
Introduction: Rebecca Scott's History of Public Rights
This brief article introduces the responses to Rebecca J. Scott's “Discerning a Dignitary Offense.”
React or Be Killed
This conversation places a historian from the Brazilian political organization Reaja ou Será Morto / Reaja ou Será Morta (React or Be Killed) in dialogue with other members of that group to reflect on how the study of history on the one hand and the struggle against racist police brutality and the possibility of creating a world without such violence on the other might inform each other. The interlocutors explore historical continuities in polici…
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
Toward a History of Rights in the City at Night: Making and Breaking the Nightly Curfew in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
During much of the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital, was under a selective curfew that made it a crime to be in the city's public spaces after dark. The curfew bent normal rules and attenuated supposedly universal rights, overtly discriminating between people on the basis of class and race. Rules that legally defined the nighttime did not come from any national statute, or from newly independent Brazil's liberal Constitut…
Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2: The Americas and Europe
The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Spanning a period of over 450 years, The Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history, culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through the voices, images, and experiences of those who have made the city's history. It outlines Rio's transformation from a hardscrabble colonial outpost and strategic port into an economic, cultural, and entertainment capital of the modern world. The volume contains a wealth of primary sources, many of which appe…
Barbara Weinstein. The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil
With The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil, Barbara Weinstein, one of the world’s leading historians of Brazil, offers scholars of the humanities and social sciences a new take on the cultural history of race and nation and of social inequality. This book immerses the reader in the historiography produced in the U.S. of mid-twentieth-century Brazil, of race, and of cultural politics and geography. Weinstein…
O lado escuro do poder municipal: A mão de obra forçada e o Toque de Recolher no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista
Durante mais da metade do século XIX, cobrindo boa parte do período imperial, as noites da cidade do Rio de Janeiro estiveram, quase sem interrupção, sob toque de recolher. Este artigo analisa a implementação dessa medida no contexto da história social e legal da cidade no período. Seu principal foco será o Edital de 1825, que estabeleceu o chamado "Toque de Aragão", a norma municipal batizada em homenagem ao Intendente de Polícia do Rio de Janei…
Police Museums in Latin America
Organized by the historian Amy Chazkel, who also provides the foreword, this forum gathers the work of three historians of Latin America who have written extensively on the social history of crime, prompting them to reflect on a ubiquitous but little studied public history institution: the police museum. Alejandra Bronfman, Lila Caimari, and Robert Buffington, specialists in Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico, respectively, guide us through a selection …
Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860
Richard Graham’s most recent monograph stems from a basic yet powerful truth about urban life: “No city feeds itself.” Through his minute examination of the food trade in Salvador da Bahia on Brazil’s northeastern coast, Graham embarks on a study of a major South Atlantic port city “where Europe met Africa in the Americas” (p. 1). The book spans the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, a period of both gradual change and revolutionary t…
Research Notes from the Underworld: The Entry Logs of the Rio de Janeiro Casa de Detenção, 1860-1969
The Rio de Janeiro state archive's collection of entry logs for the city's central detention center, going back to the mid-nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse into the lives of Rio's—and Brazil's—poor and working classes who otherwise left few written records behind. During the time when the institution maintained the entry logs, police exercised broad power to make arrests. Although relatively few detainees were ever prosecuted or even f…
Latin American Research Review: Volume 46, Number 2, 2011
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or "animal game," originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it remains popular today. Laws of Chance chronicles the game's early history, as booking agents, dealers, and players spread throughout Rio and the lottery was outlawed and driven underground. Analyzing the game's popularity, its persistence despite bouts …
Confronting the Enclosure of the Cultural Commons
The cartoonist and filmmaker Nina Paley became a vociferous opponent of proprietary control of creative work under U.S. copyright law following her experiences in making her award-winning Sita Sings the Blues (2009), an animated feature film based largely on the ancient Indian epic story of the Ramayana set to music from the 1920s, whose rights are owned by media corporations. Paley released her film, and all subsequent work, under a Creative Com…
Social Life and Civic Education in the Rio de Janeiro City Jail
This article reconstructs the social ecology of the Brazilian capital city's principal Detention Center (Casa de Detenção) at the beginning of the country's First Republic (1889–1930). Most of the persons in Rio's city jail at this time were only detained for a relatively brief period and without any formal charges. This detention center's manuscript entry logs, annual ministerial reports, administrative correspondence, and published prison diari…
Proletários de casaca: Trabalhadores do comércio carioca (1850 - 1911)
In Brazil’s late Empire and early First Republic, Rio de Janeiro was a city of merchants: thousands of small business owners and their employees who proffered goods and services to the capital city’s swelling population. This aspect of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Rio captivated a generation of contemporaneous commentators but curiously has failed to translate into a present-day field of scholarly inquiry. The archival record brim…
Beyond Law and Order: The Origins of the Jogo do Bicho in Republican Rio de Janeiro
At the beginning of Brazil's First Republic (1889-1930), the clandestine lottery called the jogo do bicho or 'animal game', which still exists today, gained enormous popularity in Rio de Janeiro, the city of its origin, and soon in the whole of Brazil. Reconstructing the spread and persecution of the jogo do bicho during its first decades reveals the social process of urbanisation evident in the daily, often informal and quasi-legal, interactions…
Cena aberta: A absovição de um bilontra e o teatro de revista de Arthur Azevedo
In 1884, a Portuguese merchant with noble pretensions named Miguel José de Lima e Silva initiated a lawsuit in Rio de Janeiro against a store clerk, Joaquim José de Oliveira. Knowing of Lima e Silva’s dreams of social mobility, Oliveira had sold the wealthy but illiterate merchant a counterfeit baronial title. Playwright Arthur Azevedo caught wind of this dramatic judicial case and parlayed it into a popular theatrical success. Historian Fernando…
The Crônica, the City, and the Invention of the Underworld: Rio de Janeiro, 1889-1922
Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Brazil produced a generation of literary and journalistic writers known as cronistaswho were animated by both a curious desire to know their city and a healthy humility in the face of its impenetrable mystery. In a lighthearted and somewhat sardonic style, Orestes Barbosa's above passage reveals the thoughts of someone whose vocation is to know the city, and yet who pronounces it unknowable. Lame human …
Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine
O lado escuro do poder municipal: A mão de obra forçada e o Toque de Recolher no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista
Durante mais da metade do século XIX, cobrindo boa parte do período imperial, as noites da cidade do Rio de Janeiro estiveram, quase sem interrupção, sob toque de recolher. Este artigo analisa a implementação dessa medida no contexto da história social e legal da cidade no período. Seu principal foco será o Edital de 1825, que estabeleceu o chamado "Toque de Aragão", a norma municipal batizada em homenagem ao Intendente de Polícia do Rio de Janei…
Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or "animal game," originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it remains popular today. Laws of Chance chronicles the game's early history, as booking agents, dealers, and players spread throughout Rio and the lottery was outlawed and driven underground. Analyzing the game's popularity, its persistence despite bouts …
Social Life and Civic Education in the Rio de Janeiro City Jail
This article reconstructs the social ecology of the Brazilian capital city's principal Detention Center (Casa de Detenção) at the beginning of the country's First Republic (1889–1930). Most of the persons in Rio's city jail at this time were only detained for a relatively brief period and without any formal charges. This detention center's manuscript entry logs, annual ministerial reports, administrative correspondence, and published prison diari…
Beyond Law and Order: The Origins of the Jogo do Bicho in Republican Rio de Janeiro
At the beginning of Brazil's First Republic (1889-1930), the clandestine lottery called the jogo do bicho or 'animal game', which still exists today, gained enormous popularity in Rio de Janeiro, the city of its origin, and soon in the whole of Brazil. Reconstructing the spread and persecution of the jogo do bicho during its first decades reveals the social process of urbanisation evident in the daily, often informal and quasi-legal, interactions…
React or Be Killed
This conversation places a historian from the Brazilian political organization Reaja ou Será Morto / Reaja ou Será Morta (React or Be Killed) in dialogue with other members of that group to reflect on how the study of history on the one hand and the struggle against racist police brutality and the possibility of creating a world without such violence on the other might inform each other. The interlocutors explore historical continuities in polici…
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
Toward a History of Rights in the City at Night: Making and Breaking the Nightly Curfew in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
During much of the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital, was under a selective curfew that made it a crime to be in the city's public spaces after dark. The curfew bent normal rules and attenuated supposedly universal rights, overtly discriminating between people on the basis of class and race. Rules that legally defined the nighttime did not come from any national statute, or from newly independent Brazil's liberal Constitut…
Confronting the Enclosure of the Cultural Commons
The cartoonist and filmmaker Nina Paley became a vociferous opponent of proprietary control of creative work under U.S. copyright law following her experiences in making her award-winning Sita Sings the Blues (2009), an animated feature film based largely on the ancient Indian epic story of the Ramayana set to music from the 1920s, whose rights are owned by media corporations. Paley released her film, and all subsequent work, under a Creative Com…
The Crônica, the City, and the Invention of the Underworld: Rio de Janeiro, 1889-1922
Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Brazil produced a generation of literary and journalistic writers known as cronistaswho were animated by both a curious desire to know their city and a healthy humility in the face of its impenetrable mystery. In a lighthearted and somewhat sardonic style, Orestes Barbosa's above passage reveals the thoughts of someone whose vocation is to know the city, and yet who pronounces it unknowable. Lame human …
Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine
Cena aberta: A absovição de um bilontra e o teatro de revista de Arthur Azevedo
In 1884, a Portuguese merchant with noble pretensions named Miguel José de Lima e Silva initiated a lawsuit in Rio de Janeiro against a store clerk, Joaquim José de Oliveira. Knowing of Lima e Silva’s dreams of social mobility, Oliveira had sold the wealthy but illiterate merchant a counterfeit baronial title. Playwright Arthur Azevedo caught wind of this dramatic judicial case and parlayed it into a popular theatrical success. Historian Fernando…
Beyond Law and Order: The Origins of the Jogo do Bicho in Republican Rio de Janeiro
At the beginning of Brazil's First Republic (1889-1930), the clandestine lottery called the jogo do bicho or 'animal game', which still exists today, gained enormous popularity in Rio de Janeiro, the city of its origin, and soon in the whole of Brazil. Reconstructing the spread and persecution of the jogo do bicho during its first decades reveals the social process of urbanisation evident in the daily, often informal and quasi-legal, interactions…
Social Life and Civic Education in the Rio de Janeiro City Jail
This article reconstructs the social ecology of the Brazilian capital city's principal Detention Center (Casa de Detenção) at the beginning of the country's First Republic (1889–1930). Most of the persons in Rio's city jail at this time were only detained for a relatively brief period and without any formal charges. This detention center's manuscript entry logs, annual ministerial reports, administrative correspondence, and published prison diari…
Proletários de casaca: Trabalhadores do comércio carioca (1850 - 1911)
In Brazil’s late Empire and early First Republic, Rio de Janeiro was a city of merchants: thousands of small business owners and their employees who proffered goods and services to the capital city’s swelling population. This aspect of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Rio captivated a generation of contemporaneous commentators but curiously has failed to translate into a present-day field of scholarly inquiry. The archival record brim…
Research Notes from the Underworld: The Entry Logs of the Rio de Janeiro Casa de Detenção, 1860-1969
The Rio de Janeiro state archive's collection of entry logs for the city's central detention center, going back to the mid-nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse into the lives of Rio's—and Brazil's—poor and working classes who otherwise left few written records behind. During the time when the institution maintained the entry logs, police exercised broad power to make arrests. Although relatively few detainees were ever prosecuted or even f…
Latin American Research Review: Volume 46, Number 2, 2011
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or "animal game," originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it remains popular today. Laws of Chance chronicles the game's early history, as booking agents, dealers, and players spread throughout Rio and the lottery was outlawed and driven underground. Analyzing the game's popularity, its persistence despite bouts …
Confronting the Enclosure of the Cultural Commons
The cartoonist and filmmaker Nina Paley became a vociferous opponent of proprietary control of creative work under U.S. copyright law following her experiences in making her award-winning Sita Sings the Blues (2009), an animated feature film based largely on the ancient Indian epic story of the Ramayana set to music from the 1920s, whose rights are owned by media corporations. Paley released her film, and all subsequent work, under a Creative Com…
Police Museums in Latin America
Organized by the historian Amy Chazkel, who also provides the foreword, this forum gathers the work of three historians of Latin America who have written extensively on the social history of crime, prompting them to reflect on a ubiquitous but little studied public history institution: the police museum. Alejandra Bronfman, Lila Caimari, and Robert Buffington, specialists in Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico, respectively, guide us through a selection …
Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860
Richard Graham’s most recent monograph stems from a basic yet powerful truth about urban life: “No city feeds itself.” Through his minute examination of the food trade in Salvador da Bahia on Brazil’s northeastern coast, Graham embarks on a study of a major South Atlantic port city “where Europe met Africa in the Americas” (p. 1). The book spans the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, a period of both gradual change and revolutionary t…
O lado escuro do poder municipal: A mão de obra forçada e o Toque de Recolher no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista
Durante mais da metade do século XIX, cobrindo boa parte do período imperial, as noites da cidade do Rio de Janeiro estiveram, quase sem interrupção, sob toque de recolher. Este artigo analisa a implementação dessa medida no contexto da história social e legal da cidade no período. Seu principal foco será o Edital de 1825, que estabeleceu o chamado "Toque de Aragão", a norma municipal batizada em homenagem ao Intendente de Polícia do Rio de Janei…
The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Spanning a period of over 450 years, The Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history, culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through the voices, images, and experiences of those who have made the city's history. It outlines Rio's transformation from a hardscrabble colonial outpost and strategic port into an economic, cultural, and entertainment capital of the modern world. The volume contains a wealth of primary sources, many of which appe…
Barbara Weinstein. The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil
With The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil, Barbara Weinstein, one of the world’s leading historians of Brazil, offers scholars of the humanities and social sciences a new take on the cultural history of race and nation and of social inequality. This book immerses the reader in the historiography produced in the U.S. of mid-twentieth-century Brazil, of race, and of cultural politics and geography. Weinstein…
Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2: The Americas and Europe
Introduction: Rebecca Scott's History of Public Rights
This brief article introduces the responses to Rebecca J. Scott's “Discerning a Dignitary Offense.”
React or Be Killed
This conversation places a historian from the Brazilian political organization Reaja ou Será Morto / Reaja ou Será Morta (React or Be Killed) in dialogue with other members of that group to reflect on how the study of history on the one hand and the struggle against racist police brutality and the possibility of creating a world without such violence on the other might inform each other. The interlocutors explore historical continuities in polici…
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
Toward a History of Rights in the City at Night: Making and Breaking the Nightly Curfew in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
During much of the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital, was under a selective curfew that made it a crime to be in the city's public spaces after dark. The curfew bent normal rules and attenuated supposedly universal rights, overtly discriminating between people on the basis of class and race. Rules that legally defined the nighttime did not come from any national statute, or from newly independent Brazil's liberal Constitut…
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