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Paperback Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Book

ISBN: 0822355388

ISBN13: 9780822355380

Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

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Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions-such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment-that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement that helped to push the nation toward redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort to institute an ambitious slate of municipal reforms. Those measures...

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