The unpast : elite violence and social control in Brazil, 1954-2000 / R.S. Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, R. S., 1943-

Series:

Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 44.

Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Brazil--History--20th century.

Violence.

Political violence--Brazil--History--20th century.

Political violence.

Elite (Social sciences)--Brazil--History--20th century.

Elite (Social sciences).

Social control--Brazil--History--20th century.

Social control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Elite violence and social control in Brazil, 1954-2000

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil-in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English vessels brought to the Americas. Controlling the vast number of slaves in Brazil became of primary importance. The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000 documents the ways in which the brutal methods used on plantations led directly to the phenomenon of Brazilian death squads. The Unpast examines how and why, after the abolition of slavery, elites in Brazil imported new methods of killing, torturing, or disfiguring dissidents and the poor to maintain dominance. Bringing a critical-historical analysis to events following the 1954 suicide of President Getulio Vargas, R. S. Rose takes the reader along a fifty-year path that helped to shape a nation's morals. He covers the misunderstood presidency of Joao Goulart; the overthrow of his government by a U.S.-assisted military; the appalling dictatorship that followed; the efforts to rid the countryside of troublemakers; and the ongoing attempt to cleanse the urban environment of the needy, an endeavor that produced 32,675 victims in just two Brazilian states between 1954 and 2000. The largest and most comprehensive documentation of suspected death-squad victims ever undertaken, The Unpast is an expose of practices and attitudes toward the poor in Latin America's largest country.

Contents:

Introduction

The muscler of governments

The excuse

In shining armor

The battle joined

The real rural bandits

Urbancide

Epilogue.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-414) and index.

ISBN:

0-89680-441-0

OCLC:

654486424