Anti-Black City - Police Terror and Black Urban Life in BrazilPaperback
An important new ethnographic study of S o Paulo's favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the…
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An important new ethnographic study of S o Paulo's favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the dynamics of racial violence in Brazil, where poverty, unemployment, residential segregation, and a biased criminal justice system create urban conditions of racial precarity.The Anti-Black City provocatively offers race as a vital new lens through which to view violence and marginalization in the supposedly "raceless" S o Paulo. Ironically, in a context in which racial ambiguity makes it difficult to identify who is black and who is white, racialized access