TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leu,Lorraine
TI  - Defiant geographies: race & urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro 
T2  - Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
SN  - 9780822987369
AV  - HT169.B72 
U1  - 307.1/216098153 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - City planning
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Rio de Janeiro
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Pauvres en milieu urbain
KW  - Brésil
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization -- Race, Ethnicity, and Visuality -- Alternative Geographies and Spatial Practices -- Eradicating Blackness from the Ideal City -- Epilogue: Mega-events, Ruination, and the Politics of Staying Put
N2  - "Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil's first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its postabolition whitening ideology took on material form in the urban development project that staged Latin America's first World's Fair. The book explores official efforts to reorganize space that equated modernization with racial progress. It also considers the ways in which black and blackened subjects mobilized their own spatial logics to introduce alternative ways of occupying the city. Leu unpacks how the spaces of the urban poor are racialized, and the impact of this process for those who do not fit the ideal models of urbanity that come to define the national project. Defiant Geographies puts the mutual production of race and space at the heart of scholarship on Brazil's urban development and understands urban reform as a monumental act of forgetting the country's racial past."--
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