SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Euphemism, Social Apartheid, Favela
2 Nov 2016
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The aesthetics of domination (week 5, october 4th, 2016) Bodies and shape are carved by culture: teenage boys seen wanting more to fit culture, this want not seen in 1950s. Wide angles: p. 69: the context in rio-a city of extremes. Middle class habitus not doing dirty work house work: this signals their identity as not part of the servant class, cultivated incompetence. Gloria refuses to work for nilda (as nilda is too much like her to be her patroa) p. 80. Refers to the racial segregation instantiated in architectural designs: servant quarters, separate stairwells/elevators, geographic region. Two kisses (p. 127) gloria angrily recognizes this as racism. Wide angle: empregadas choose their work not because they want it but it"s because there"s no other work (essentially form of slavery and racism) They choose to work there for 30 years, it must be good, same food as the upper class.
