Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil

Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in BrazilWinner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book PrizeIn 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcntara peninsula to build a state of the art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. Completed in 1990, this vast undertaking in one of Brazils poorest regions has provoked decades of conflict

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