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- Title
Urban Forced Removals in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles: North-South Similarities in Race and City.
- Authors
Anthony, Constance G.
- Abstract
The article discusses the forced removal of the urban populations of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Los Angeles, California on the basis of race, with a focus on favelas in Brazil and Mexican and Mexican-American populations in Los Angeles. It focuses on topics including poverty in urban populations, collapse of infrastructure, and public sanitation. Other topics include political economy, democratic citizenship, and the history of both cities.
- Subjects
RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); LOS Angeles (Calif.); FORCED migration; CITY dwellers; RACE discrimination; POVERTY; SOCIAL history; RACE relations
- Publication
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, 2013, Vol 44, Issue 2, p337
- ISSN
0884-1756
- Publication type
Article