Dance lest we all fall down : breaking cycles of poverty in Brazil and beyond / Margaret Willson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willson, Margaret, 1953-

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor girls--Brazil--Salvador.

Poor girls.

Young women--Brazil--Salvador.

Young women.

Education--Brazil--Salvador.

Education.

Salvador (Brazil)--Social conditions.

Salvador (Brazil).

Salvador (Brazil)--Economic conditions.

Brazil--Salvador.

Physical Description:

xvii, 305 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First University of Washington Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2010.

Summary:

An American anthropologist takes an extended detour through Brazil that draws her into a kaleidoscopic world of street kids, capoeiristas, and drug dealers. She and an African Brazilian colleague think about breaking the cycles of poverty and violence that affect Brazil's black underclass. And thus is born Bahia Street, a free-thinking NGO that provides education, healthcare, food, and counseling for girls from the slums of Salvador. In a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of this remarkable alliance, from Margaret Willson's arrival in Brazil in 1991 to the graduation of Bahia Street's first college-bound student in 2005. The experience of Willson and Bahia Street partner Rita Conceição, seasoned with friendship as well as crises and triumphs, models a new way of working together to tackle entrenched social problems. Book jacket.

Notes:

Originally published: Brentwood, TN : Cold Tree Press, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780295990583

0295990589

OCLC:

613433428

Publisher Number:

99939134500