Donna Goldstein has written extensively on the intersection of race, gender, poverty and violence in Brazil.
Her most recent publications include "Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil's Failed Gun Ban Referendum in the Rio de Janeiro Context" (in press, 2006) and "The Perils of Witnessing and the Ambivalence of Writing: Whiteness, Sexuality, and Violence in the Shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro." (in press, 2006).
Additionally, she is the author of the critically acclaimed Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (University of California Press 2003), focusing on the lives of impoverished domestic workers who deploy humor and laughter as strategic forms of resistance in their day-to-day struggle for survival.