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Dance Lest We All Fall Down – Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond de Margaret Willson

Dance Lest We All Fall Down – Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond: Dance Lest We All Fall Down

Autor Margaret Willson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2011
An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeriristas, drug dealers and wise teachers. She and African Brazilian activist Rita Conceição joined forces to break the cycles of poverty and violence around them by pledging local residents they would create a top-quality educational program for girls. From 1991 to the graduation of Bahia Street's first college-bound graduate in 2005, Willson and Conceição’s adventure took them to the shantytowns of Brazil's Northeast, high-society London and urban Seattle.

Through a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of this remarkable alliance, showing how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295990583
ISBN-10: 0295990589
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 151 x 227 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria Dance Lest We All Fall Down

Recenzii

"Always poignant and often productively uncomfortable, Dance Lest We All Fall Down is a highly personal, beautifully written, and theoretically sophisticated ethnography of modern connections in Brazil’s northeast that focuses on the successes as well as the shortcomings of non-governmental institutions and contemporary means of addressing social inequality.” –John Collins, Anthropology, City University of New York

"An ideal text for classroom discussions about the cultural politics of development. Dance Lest We All Fall Down illustrates both how transnational solidarity can improve livelihoods and how it is not free from the tensions and contradictions that have always accompanied outside efforts to ‘do good’ in the Global South. This book gives proponents and skeptics of NGOs plenty to think about.” –Maria Elena Garcia, Comparative History of Ideas and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

"A very moving tale about race, gender, and class in the ‘Capital of Happiness’ in Brazil, Bahia…and a powerful and personal account of succeeding against the odds in breaking the cycle of poverty for young poor black girls there…Beautifully illustrates that, yes, it can be done through local empowerment and determination.” –Darius Mans, President, Africare

"A classic in the making. Under the guise of an easygoing and well-written travelogue, we are taken away into the unbelievable story of Bahia Street. And we come out of it bewildered and refreshed….If true-to-life anthropology can be this breathtaking, who needs fiction?” –Dr. Robert Boonzajer Flaes, Founder and Chair of the Atana Program, Amsterdam

"Inspiring, unique, and perfectly honest. The idea that street girls can actually escape a life of poverty and destruction through schooling and education is as old as the world. Bringing this idea from a nineteenth-century Victorian fiction setting to the real life slums of a Brazilian favela at the turn of the twenty-first century is an adventure…and at times enormously funny. Some books talk about life. Some books give you insight. And once in a blue moon you find a book like this that gives life.” –Dr. Maaike Verrips, director of De Taalstudio, Amsterdam


"Always poignant and often productively uncomfortable, Dance Lest We All Fall Down is a highly personal, beautifully written, and theoretically sophisticated ethnography of modern connections in Brazil's northeast that focuses on the successes as well as the shortcomings of non-governmental institutions and contemporary means of addressing social inequality." -John Collins, Anthropology, City University of New York "An ideal text for classroom discussions about the cultural politics of development. Dance Lest We All Fall Down illustrates both how transnational solidarity can improve livelihoods and how it is not free from the tensions and contradictions that have always accompanied outside efforts to 'do good' in the Global South. This book gives proponents and skeptics of NGOs plenty to think about." -Maria Elena Garcia, Comparative History of Ideas and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington "A very moving tale about race, gender, and class in the 'Capital of Happiness' in Brazil, Bahia...and a powerful and personal account of succeeding against the odds in breaking the cycle of poverty for young poor black girls there...Beautifully illustrates that, yes, it can be done through local empowerment and determination." -Darius Mans, President, Africare "A classic in the making. Under the guise of an easygoing and well-written travelogue, we are taken away into the unbelievable story of Bahia Street. And we come out of it bewildered and refreshed...If true-to-life anthropology can be this breathtaking, who needs fiction?" -Dr. Robert Boonzajer Flaes, Founder and Chair of the Atana Program, Amsterdam "Inspiring, unique, and perfectly honest. The idea that street girls can actually escape a life of poverty and destruction through schooling and education is as old as the world. Bringing this idea from a nineteenth-century Victorian fiction setting to the real life slums of a Brazilian favela at the turn of the twenty-first century is an adventure...and at times enormously funny. Some books talk about life. Some books give you insight. And once in a blue moon you find a book like this that gives life." -Dr. Maaike Verrips, director of De Taalstudio, Amsterdam

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Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Part One | Learning to Dance
1. Seduction
2. The First Return
3. Agnaldo and Candomble
4. Letting Salvador Inside
5. Learning to Dance
6. A Dangerous Embrace
7. Marginals
8. Sex and Friendship
9. Rain
10. Burnt Knives
11. A Stranger

Part Two | Treading Water
12. Encountering Seattle
13. Ideas
14. Life Change
15. Letting the Outer Skin Be Social
16. Of Race and Remembrance
17. More Sides of Bahia
18. A View Into the Abyss
19. Power and Presence
20. Trust
21. Tall Poppy
22. A Shadowed Color of Shade

Part Three | Laughter Lessons
23. Leaves of Understanding
24. Love
25. Barriers of Glass
26. Storms
27. Sharing a Lifeboat
28. Heartbreak
29. Evolution
30. Resting on the Wings of a Butterfly

Afterword

Descriere

Through a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.