not the motorcycle diaries

8/23/2007

On being careful what you wish for

Filed under: fetishism — ana @ 8:00 am

favela

Nunca vi cartão postal que se destaca uma favela
Só vejo paisagem muito linda e muito bela

I’ve never seen a postcard picturing a favela
I only see those with pretty scenes ….

- from ‘Rap da Felicidade‘, Katia/Julinho Rasta, qtd. in Donna M. Goldstein, Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown, University of California Press, 2003.

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