Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond - Softcover

Willson, Margaret

 
9780295990583: Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0295990589 ISBN 13: 9780295990583
Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2010

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An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers. She and African Brazilian activist Rita Conceicao joined forces to break the cycles of poverty and violence around them by pledging local residents they would create a top-quality educational program for girls. From 1991 to the graduation of Bahia Street's first college-bound graduate in 2005, Willson and Conceicao 's adventure took them to the shantytowns of Brazil's Northeast, high-society London, and urban Seattle.

In a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of this remarkable alliance, showing how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.

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-John Collins , Anthropology, City University of New York

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In a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.

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In a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.

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Verlag
University of Washington Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0295990589
ISBN 13 
9780295990583
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Anzahl der Seiten
305
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