![]() ![]() They were routinely linked to notions of blackness, Africanness and the wild frontier of Brazil’s hinterland ( sertão). Favelas quickly came to be pitted as the backdrop of archaism and backwardness against which ideas of modernity were counterposed. The chapter examines the early representation of favelas in paintings, photographs, illustrations and cartoons, piecing together how the visual record of these communities morphed into convention and stereotype. The best known among them was called Morro da Favela, a toponym that mushroomed into a typology, by the 1920s, as more and more communities sprang up based on the favela model. ![]() The urban poor, left to fend for themselves, began to build informal settlements on the city’s empty hillsides. The abolition of slavery contributed to a population explosion in Rio de Janeiro over the 1890s and early 1900s which, combined with a severe economic crisis, resulted in a drastic shortage of housing. ![]()
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