Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela

Title: Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela Author: Lino E Silva, Moisés ISBN: 9780226818276 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Published: 2022 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher History 1424946 Publisher Description: A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights--usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois--at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty. He calls such