Brodwyn M Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 837986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brodwyn M Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brodwyn M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0468-8557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Favelas e as pós-vidas da cidade escrava
Este artigo examina as representações visuais da urbanidade negra do século XIX ao início do século XX. Considera-se como a urbanidade negra foi vivida, imaginada e visualizada nas cidades do século XIX, enfocando a tensa interdependência entre a cidade escrava (a cidade estruturada pela prática da escravidão) e a cidade negra (a cidade criada por e para os negros). Em seguida, analisa como os fotógrafos municipais representaram as favelas e os m…
Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil
This essay reviews the following works:The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast. By Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. Translated by Jerry Dennis Metz. Foreword by James N. Green. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 277. 20.73 paperback. ISBN: 9780822360063
Historicising informal governance in 20th century Brazil
This is an article about what urban informality means when it is understood historically. In particular, it explores the relationship between urban informality and three vital threads in Brazil’s contemporary history: the evolution of racialized governance and inequality, the tense coexistence of private and public forms of power, and the complex contradictions embedded in Brazilian social struggles. Paying special attention to the way in which r…
Lula and the Future of the Past
In 2012, John French and Alexandre Fortes wrote in the pages of this journal about Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff, and the legacies and challenges of Brazil's Workers’ Party (PT).1 Writing from a moment in which many imagined the future of the left emerging from the “country of the future,” French and Fortes reiterated the sentiment that we were living then “not only in an epoch of changes but in a change of epochs,” in which the histo…
A ética do silêncio racial no contexto urbano
Mais de meio século após o preconceito racial ter se tornado o principal alvo dos movimentos urbanos pelos direitos civis nos Estados Unidos e na África do Sul, e décadas depois do surgimento dos movimentos negros contemporâneos no Brasil, o conjunto de ferramentas legislativas criado no Brasil para promover o direito à cidade ainda adere à longa tradição brasileira de silêncio acerca da questão racial. Este artigo propõe iniciar uma exploração d…
From the Mocambo to the Favela
This article explores the history of censusing in the informal neighborhoods that have always been foundational to the Brazilian cityscape. Focusing on Rio de Janeiro and Recife, it argues that the censusing of favelas and mocambos was at once a technology of governance and a performance of North Atlantic modernity. The eventual emergence of the "statistical favela", which defined urban informality as a problem of collective social dysfunction, h…
Law, Silence, and Racialized Inequalities in the History of Afro-Brazil
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Estudios afrolatinoamericanos
Título original: Afro-Latin American Studies. 1a ed.: Cambridge : Cambridege Uhiversity Press, 2018. Este libro tiene el objetivo de introducir al lector en un campo dinámico y en expansión como es el de los estudios afrolatinoamericanos. Definimos este campo, en primer lugar, como un estudio de la población de ascendencia africana en América Latina y, en segundo lugar, como el estudio de las sociedades en las que vive dicha población. En relació…
The Red Menace Reconsidered
This article focuses on the relationship between the political Left and Brazil's urban poor by exploring the paradoxical role of Brazilian communists in the massive land struggles that mobilized Rio's favelas against forced eviction in the mid-twentieth century. Without the communists' organizational, legal, and political acumen, Rio's iconic favelas might never have become a permanent and precious urban foothold for the migrant poor. Without the…
Democracy, Thuggery and the Grassroots
Shantytowns have long been critical to urban popular politics. In Brazil, both phenomena gained strength from 20th century mass urbanization, and the two have been locked in a relationship of mutual dependency ever since. Yet – given high political stakes – it is notoriously difficult to glimpse the internal dynamics of these informal dependencies: to understand how politicians used shantytowns to achieve their own political goals, to comprehend …
Um Nordeste Em São Paulo
Book Review| September 01 2012 Um Nordeste Em São Paulo: Trabalhadores Migrantes Em São Miguel Paulista, 1945 – 66 Um nordeste em São Paulo: trabalhadores migrantes em São Miguel Paulista, 1945 – 66 by Paulo Fontes. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2008 346 pp., $46.00 (paper) Brodwyn Fischer Brodwyn Fischer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (3): 103–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-159…
Histories and Anthropologies of Citizenship by James Holston
A Poverty of Rights
A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bases for modern Brazilian citizenship originated. Between 1930 and 1964, Brazilian law dramatically extended its range and power, and citizenship began to signify real political, economic, and civil rights for common people. And yet, even in Rio de Janeiro—Brazil's national capital until 1960—this proces…
Greves E Repressao Policial Ao Sindicalismo Carioca
Book Review| March 01 2008 Greves E Repressão Policial Ao Sindicalismo Carioca: 1945-1964; Trabalhadores Em Greve, Polícia Em Guarda: Greves E Repressão Policial Na Formação Da Classe Trabalhadora Carioca Greves e repressão policial ao sindicalismo carioca: 1945-1964 Marcelo Badaró Mattos, coordinator Rio de Janeiro: FAPERJ/Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2003 172 pp. (paper) Brodwyn Fischer Brodwyn Fischer Search for other works by …
Quase pretos de tão pobres? Race and Social Discrimination in Rio de Janeiro's Twentieth-Century Criminal Courts
Conceived as a contribution to debates about the role of state institutions in perpetuating racial inequality in modern Brazil, this article explores the relative importance of social and racial characteristics in determining defendants' treatment in Rio de Janeiro's criminal courts between 1930 and 1964. Focusing on rarely noted aspects of defendants' class and citizenship status, and emphasizing the importance of judicial procedure, it argues t…
Quaese pretos de tao pobres? Race and Social Discrimination in Rio de Janeiro's Twentieth-Century Criminal Courts
Conceived as a contribution to debates about the role of state institutions in perpetuating racial inequality in modern Brazil, this article explores the relative importance of social and racial characteristics in determining defendants' treatment in Rio de Janeiro's criminal courts between 1930 and 1964. Focusing on rarely noted aspects of defendants' class and citizenship status, and emphasizing the importance of judicial procedure, it argues t…
The Red Menace Reconsidered
This article focuses on the relationship between the political Left and Brazil's urban poor by exploring the paradoxical role of Brazilian communists in the massive land struggles that mobilized Rio's favelas against forced eviction in the mid-twentieth century. Without the communists' organizational, legal, and political acumen, Rio's iconic favelas might never have become a permanent and precious urban foothold for the migrant poor. Without the…
A ética do silêncio racial no contexto urbano
Mais de meio século após o preconceito racial ter se tornado o principal alvo dos movimentos urbanos pelos direitos civis nos Estados Unidos e na África do Sul, e décadas depois do surgimento dos movimentos negros contemporâneos no Brasil, o conjunto de ferramentas legislativas criado no Brasil para promover o direito à cidade ainda adere à longa tradição brasileira de silêncio acerca da questão racial. Este artigo propõe iniciar uma exploração d…
Quaese pretos de tao pobres? Race and Social Discrimination in Rio de Janeiro's Twentieth-Century Criminal Courts
Conceived as a contribution to debates about the role of state institutions in perpetuating racial inequality in modern Brazil, this article explores the relative importance of social and racial characteristics in determining defendants' treatment in Rio de Janeiro's criminal courts between 1930 and 1964. Focusing on rarely noted aspects of defendants' class and citizenship status, and emphasizing the importance of judicial procedure, it argues t…
Historicising informal governance in 20th century Brazil
This is an article about what urban informality means when it is understood historically. In particular, it explores the relationship between urban informality and three vital threads in Brazil’s contemporary history: the evolution of racialized governance and inequality, the tense coexistence of private and public forms of power, and the complex contradictions embedded in Brazilian social struggles. Paying special attention to the way in which r…
From the Mocambo to the Favela
This article explores the history of censusing in the informal neighborhoods that have always been foundational to the Brazilian cityscape. Focusing on Rio de Janeiro and Recife, it argues that the censusing of favelas and mocambos was at once a technology of governance and a performance of North Atlantic modernity. The eventual emergence of the "statistical favela", which defined urban informality as a problem of collective social dysfunction, h…
Histories and Anthropologies of Citizenship by James Holston
Quase pretos de tão pobres? Race and Social Discrimination in Rio de Janeiro's Twentieth-Century Criminal Courts
Conceived as a contribution to debates about the role of state institutions in perpetuating racial inequality in modern Brazil, this article explores the relative importance of social and racial characteristics in determining defendants' treatment in Rio de Janeiro's criminal courts between 1930 and 1964. Focusing on rarely noted aspects of defendants' class and citizenship status, and emphasizing the importance of judicial procedure, it argues t…
Quaese pretos de tao pobres? Race and Social Discrimination in Rio de Janeiro's Twentieth-Century Criminal Courts
Conceived as a contribution to debates about the role of state institutions in perpetuating racial inequality in modern Brazil, this article explores the relative importance of social and racial characteristics in determining defendants' treatment in Rio de Janeiro's criminal courts between 1930 and 1964. Focusing on rarely noted aspects of defendants' class and citizenship status, and emphasizing the importance of judicial procedure, it argues t…
A Poverty of Rights
A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bases for modern Brazilian citizenship originated. Between 1930 and 1964, Brazilian law dramatically extended its range and power, and citizenship began to signify real political, economic, and civil rights for common people. And yet, even in Rio de Janeiro—Brazil's national capital until 1960—this proces…
Greves E Repressao Policial Ao Sindicalismo Carioca
Book Review| March 01 2008 Greves E Repressão Policial Ao Sindicalismo Carioca: 1945-1964; Trabalhadores Em Greve, Polícia Em Guarda: Greves E Repressão Policial Na Formação Da Classe Trabalhadora Carioca Greves e repressão policial ao sindicalismo carioca: 1945-1964 Marcelo Badaró Mattos, coordinator Rio de Janeiro: FAPERJ/Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2003 172 pp. (paper) Brodwyn Fischer Brodwyn Fischer Search for other works by …
Histories and Anthropologies of Citizenship by James Holston
Um Nordeste Em São Paulo
Book Review| September 01 2012 Um Nordeste Em São Paulo: Trabalhadores Migrantes Em São Miguel Paulista, 1945 – 66 Um nordeste em São Paulo: trabalhadores migrantes em São Miguel Paulista, 1945 – 66 by Paulo Fontes. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2008 346 pp., $46.00 (paper) Brodwyn Fischer Brodwyn Fischer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (3): 103–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-159…
Democracy, Thuggery and the Grassroots
Shantytowns have long been critical to urban popular politics. In Brazil, both phenomena gained strength from 20th century mass urbanization, and the two have been locked in a relationship of mutual dependency ever since. Yet – given high political stakes – it is notoriously difficult to glimpse the internal dynamics of these informal dependencies: to understand how politicians used shantytowns to achieve their own political goals, to comprehend …
The Red Menace Reconsidered
This article focuses on the relationship between the political Left and Brazil's urban poor by exploring the paradoxical role of Brazilian communists in the massive land struggles that mobilized Rio's favelas against forced eviction in the mid-twentieth century. Without the communists' organizational, legal, and political acumen, Rio's iconic favelas might never have become a permanent and precious urban foothold for the migrant poor. Without the…
Law, Silence, and Racialized Inequalities in the History of Afro-Brazil
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Estudios afrolatinoamericanos
Título original: Afro-Latin American Studies. 1a ed.: Cambridge : Cambridege Uhiversity Press, 2018. Este libro tiene el objetivo de introducir al lector en un campo dinámico y en expansión como es el de los estudios afrolatinoamericanos. Definimos este campo, en primer lugar, como un estudio de la población de ascendencia africana en América Latina y, en segundo lugar, como el estudio de las sociedades en las que vive dicha población. En relació…
From the Mocambo to the Favela
This article explores the history of censusing in the informal neighborhoods that have always been foundational to the Brazilian cityscape. Focusing on Rio de Janeiro and Recife, it argues that the censusing of favelas and mocambos was at once a technology of governance and a performance of North Atlantic modernity. The eventual emergence of the "statistical favela", which defined urban informality as a problem of collective social dysfunction, h…
A ética do silêncio racial no contexto urbano
Mais de meio século após o preconceito racial ter se tornado o principal alvo dos movimentos urbanos pelos direitos civis nos Estados Unidos e na África do Sul, e décadas depois do surgimento dos movimentos negros contemporâneos no Brasil, o conjunto de ferramentas legislativas criado no Brasil para promover o direito à cidade ainda adere à longa tradição brasileira de silêncio acerca da questão racial. Este artigo propõe iniciar uma exploração d…
Historicising informal governance in 20th century Brazil
This is an article about what urban informality means when it is understood historically. In particular, it explores the relationship between urban informality and three vital threads in Brazil’s contemporary history: the evolution of racialized governance and inequality, the tense coexistence of private and public forms of power, and the complex contradictions embedded in Brazilian social struggles. Paying special attention to the way in which r…
Lula and the Future of the Past
In 2012, John French and Alexandre Fortes wrote in the pages of this journal about Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff, and the legacies and challenges of Brazil's Workers’ Party (PT).1 Writing from a moment in which many imagined the future of the left emerging from the “country of the future,” French and Fortes reiterated the sentiment that we were living then “not only in an epoch of changes but in a change of epochs,” in which the histo…
Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil
This essay reviews the following works:The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast. By Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. Translated by Jerry Dennis Metz. Foreword by James N. Green. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 277. 20.73 paperback. ISBN: 9780822360063
Favelas e as pós-vidas da cidade escrava
Este artigo examina as representações visuais da urbanidade negra do século XIX ao início do século XX. Considera-se como a urbanidade negra foi vivida, imaginada e visualizada nas cidades do século XIX, enfocando a tensa interdependência entre a cidade escrava (a cidade estruturada pela prática da escravidão) e a cidade negra (a cidade criada por e para os negros). Em seguida, analisa como os fotógrafos municipais representaram as favelas e os m…
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