Title Black women against the land grab : the fight for racial justice in Brazil / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents Diasporic Blackness and Afro-Brazilian Agency -- Engendering the Grassroots -- The Gendered Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion -- The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers -- Violent Policing and Disposing of Urban Landscapes -- "Picking Up the Pieces" : Everyday Violence and Community -- Politics Is a Women's Thing -- Above the Asphalt : From the Margins to the Center of Black Diaspora Politics Summary In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, Black women, especially poor Black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is these very women who determine how urban policies are established. Focusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador's city center, this book explores how Black women's views on development have radicalized local communities to demand justice and social change. The author describes the key role of local women activists in the citywide movement for land and housing rights. She reveals the importance of geographic location for understanding the gendered aspects of urban renewal and the formation of Black women-led social movements. How have Black women shaped the politics of urban redevelopment, she asks, and what does this kind of political intervention tell us about Black women's agency? Her work uncovers the ways in which political labor at the neighborhood level is central to the mass mobilization of Black people against institutional racism and for citizenship rights and resources in Brazil. Highlighting the political life of Black communities, specifically those in urban contexts often represented as socially pathological and politically bankrupt, this book offers a valuable corrective to how we think about politics and about Black women, particularly poor Black women, as a political force.--description provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Women, Black -- Political activity -- Brazil -- Salvador Urban poor -- Political activity -- Brazil -- Salvador Black people -- Brazil -- Salvador -- Social conditions Urban renewal -- Brazil -- Salvador SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Black people -- Social conditions. Politics and government Urban poor -- Political activity. Urban renewal. Women, Black -- Political activity. Landnahme Protestbewegung Schwarze Frau SUBJECT Salvador (Brazil) -- Politics and government Subject Brazil -- Salvador. Brasilien Form Electronic book ISBN 9781461951292 1461951291 9780816687978 0816687978 9781452949154 1452949158

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