Defiant geographies : race & urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro / Lorraine Leu.

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Leu, Lorraine [author.]

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TextSeries: Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780822987369
0822987368
0822946009
9780822946007

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Defiant geographies.DDC classification:

307.1/216098153 23

LOC classification:

HT169.B72

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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."-- Publisher description

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."-- Publisher description

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