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Abstract

A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Riode Janeiro is the result of Brodwyn Fischer's 1999 Harvard dissertation. In it she analyzes the process of rights formation in the organization of the Brazilian state and society and the conflicts of class, race, and gender which permeate the constitution of the urban space in Rio de Janeiro.Taking as the core of its analysis the structured shocks in the daily life of the poor in Rio de Janeiro, A Poverty of Rights is an original contribution to the social history of urban poverty. The work draws on the renewal of the history of recent time, highlighting the question of favelas. As Knaus and Brum note, while urban history and the history of Rio de Janeiro city in particular became consolidated as a field of institutionalized research of historians from the 1980s onwards, it would only be in the first decade of the twenty-first century that production in postgraduate history programs began to emerge in which the favela appears as an object of historical studies. (Brum, 2012, p.121)