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The Anti-Black City - Jaime Amparo Alves

The Anti-Black City

Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2018
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-0156-1 (ISBN)
CHF 36,65 inkl. MwSt
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil

While 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” São Paulo. Ironically, in a context in which racial ambiguity makes it difficult to identify who is black and who is white, racialized access to opportunities and violent police tactics establish hard racial boundaries through subjugation and death. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in prisons and neighborhoods on the periphery of this mega-city, Alves documents the brutality of police tactics and the complexity of responses deployed by black residents, including self-help initiatives, public campaigns against police violence, ruthless gangs, and self-policing of communities.

The Anti-Black City reveals the violent and racist ideologies that underlie state fantasies of order and urban peace in modern Brazil. Illustrating how “governing through death” has become the dominant means for managing and controlling ethnic populations in the neoliberal state, Alves shows that these tactics only lead to more marginalization, criminality, and violence. Ultimately, Alves’s work points to a need for a new approach to an intractable problem: how to govern populations and territories historically seen as “ungovernable.”

Jaime Amparo Alves is assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York and associate researcher at the Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos of Universidad Icesi/Colombia.

Introduction: On Our Own Terms
1. Macabre Spatialities
2. “Police, Get off My Back!”
3. The Favela-Prison Pipeline
4. Sticking Up!
5. Bringing Back the Dead
Conclusion: Blackpolis

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 9
Verlagsort Minnesota
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-5179-0156-1 / 1517901561
ISBN-13 978-1-5179-0156-1 / 9781517901561
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