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Book Review: Bernardo Pinto da Cruz (ed.), (Des)Controlo em Luanda: Urbanismo, Polícia e Lazer nos Musseques do Império [(Dis)control in Luanda: Urbanism, Police and Leisure in the Musseques of the Empire]

Book Review: Bernardo Pinto da Cruz (ed.), (Des)Controlo em Luanda: Urbanismo, Polícia e Lazer... 1129621 CTYXXX10.1177/15356841221129621City & CommunityBook Reviews book-review2022 Book Reviews City & Community 2022, Vol. 21(4) 383 –386 Book Reviews © American Sociological Association 2022 journals.sagepub.com/home/cty Editor’s note: This book review is the first of scientists from Portugal and Brazil, these a non-English book in City & Community’s are the main questions this book wishes to history. Thank you to our book review edi- answer. tors, Sofya Aptekar and Ervin Kosta, for their The analyses contained in this book are hard work on it. based on the evidence of the “dualism” characteristic of Luanda, which opposed the (Des)Controlo em Luanda: Urbanismo, Polícia e Lazer “poor,” “Black,” and peripheral musseques to nos Musseques do Império [(Dis)control in Luanda: the city’s “Downtown,” the center of White Urbanism, Police and Leisure in the Musseques of the colonial power in Angola. This was unques- Empire] by Bernardo Pinto da Cruz (ed.). Lisbon: tionably a physical dualism, but also a dual- Outro Modo, 2020. 232 pp. €14.00 paper; ISBN ism that became deeply rooted in the minds 978-989-54882-4-7. and public representations that were then made of social life in the Angolan capital. Reviewed by: João Queirós, Polytechnic of Fueled by the racism that divided Luanda’s Porto http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Community (Fixed 2) SAGE

Book Review: Bernardo Pinto da Cruz (ed.), (Des)Controlo em Luanda: Urbanismo, Polícia e Lazer nos Musseques do Império [(Dis)control in Luanda: Urbanism, Police and Leisure in the Musseques of the Empire]

Queirós, João
City & Community (Fixed 2) , Volume 21 (4): 2 – Dec 1, 2022
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1129621 CTYXXX10.1177/15356841221129621City & CommunityBook Reviews book-review2022 Book Reviews City & Community 2022, Vol. 21(4) 383 –386 Book Reviews © American Sociological Association 2022 journals.sagepub.com/home/cty Editor’s note: This book review is the first of scientists from Portugal and Brazil, these a non-English book in City & Community’s are the main questions this book wishes to history. Thank you to our book review edi- answer. tors, Sofya Aptekar and Ervin Kosta, for their The analyses contained in this book are hard work on it. based on the evidence of the “dualism” characteristic of Luanda, which opposed the (Des)Controlo em Luanda: Urbanismo, Polícia e Lazer “poor,” “Black,” and peripheral musseques to nos Musseques do Império [(Dis)control in Luanda: the city’s “Downtown,” the center of White Urbanism, Police and Leisure in the Musseques of the colonial power in Angola. This was unques- Empire] by Bernardo Pinto da Cruz (ed.). Lisbon: tionably a physical dualism, but also a dual- Outro Modo, 2020. 232 pp. €14.00 paper; ISBN ism that became deeply rooted in the minds 978-989-54882-4-7. and public representations that were then made of social life in the Angolan capital. Reviewed by: João Queirós, Polytechnic of Fueled by the racism that divided Luanda’s Porto

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