Overview

The Anti-Black City reveals the violent and racist ideologies thatunderlie state fantasies of order and urban peace in modern Brazil.Illustrating how ""governing through death"" has become the dominant means formanaging and controlling ethnic populations in the neoliberal state, Jaime AmparoAlves shows that these tactics only lead to more marginalization, criminality,and violence.

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Author:   Jaime Amparo Alves
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781517901561

ISBN 10:   1517901561
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   13 February 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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With impeccable scholarship and ethics, The Anti-Black City offers devastating, yet beautiful, narratives of resistance against brutality, poverty, and abandonment. Jaime Amparo Alves labored for years with maternal activists to resurrect critical thinking about communities suturing against evisceration and loss. In this impressive work, fighting for lives and the memories of their slain, resolute if not always resilient captives become the political doulas to a diaspora. -Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader Jaime Amparo Alves's poignant and powerful ethnography offers a vital critique of racialized forms of governance in the anti-black city of Sao Paulo. Beyond making a profound contribution to our understanding of the racialized and gendered inequalities which shape urban life in Brazil, this theoretically provocative work of activist scholarship also shows us a way forward. -Erika Robb Larkins, author of The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil With the narrative drive of a captivating novel, the immanent critique of critical theory at its best, the empirical precision and accuracy of an anthropologist whose trust has been hard won in the field, and a bone-deep commitment to Black liberation, The Anti-Black City illustrates how police terror in the favelas of Sao Paulo constitutes a violence of genocidal proportions. This book is a game-changer in the field of anthropology. -Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms

With impeccable scholarship and ethics, The Anti-Black City offers devastating, yet beautiful, narratives of resistance against brutality, poverty, and abandonment. Jaime Amparo Alves labored for years with maternal activists to resurrect critical thinking about communities suturing against evisceration and loss. In this impressive work, fighting for lives and the memories of their slain, resolute if not always resilient captives become the political doulas to a diaspora. --Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader Jaime Amparo Alves's poignant and powerful ethnography offers a vital critique of racialized forms of governance in the anti-black city of Sao Paulo. Beyond making a profound contribution to our understanding of the racialized and gendered inequalities which shape urban life in Brazil, this theoretically provocative work of activist scholarship also shows us a way forward. --Erika Robb Larkins, author of The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil With the narrative drive of a captivating novel, the immanent critique of critical theory at its best, the empirical precision and accuracy of an anthropologist whose trust has been hard won in the field, and a bone-deep commitment to Black liberation, The Anti-Black City illustrates how police terror in the favelas of Sao Paulo constitutes a violence of genocidal proportions. This book is a game-changer in the field of anthropology. --Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms

Jaime Amparo Alves's book is a tragically timely contribution to this hypervisibility of violence in Brazil. It is a thoroughly rare accounting of violence that is only possible because of Alves' years of community organizing. -Antipode With impeccable scholarship and ethics, The Anti-Black City offers devastating, yet beautiful, narratives of resistance against brutality, poverty, and abandonment. Jaime Amparo Alves labored for years with maternal activists to resurrect critical thinking about communities suturing against evisceration and loss. In this impressive work, fighting for lives and the memories of their slain, resolute if not always resilient captives become the political doulas to a diaspora. -Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader Jaime Amparo Alves's poignant and powerful ethnography offers a vital critique of racialized forms of governance in the anti-black city of Sao Paulo. Beyond making a profound contribution to our understanding of the racialized and gendered inequalities which shape urban life in Brazil, this theoretically provocative work of activist scholarship also shows us a way forward. -Erika Robb Larkins, author of The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil With the narrative drive of a captivating novel, the immanent critique of critical theory at its best, the empirical precision and accuracy of an anthropologist whose trust has been hard won in the field, and a bone-deep commitment to Black liberation, The Anti-Black City illustrates how police terror in the favelas of Sao Paulo constitutes a violence of genocidal proportions. This book is a game-changer in the field of anthropology. -Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms

With impeccable scholarship and ethics, The Anti-Black City offers devastating, yet beautiful, narratives of resistance against brutality, poverty, and abandonment. Jaime Amparo Alves labored for years with maternal activists to resurrect critical thinking about communities suturing against evisceration and loss. In this impressive work, fighting for lives and the memories of their slain, resolute if not always resilient captives become the political doulas to a diaspora. --Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader Jaime Amparo Alves's poignant and powerful ethnography offers a vital critique of racialized forms of governance in the anti-black city of S�o Paulo. Beyond making a profound contribution to our understanding of the racialized and gendered inequalities which shape urban life in Brazil, this theoretically provocative work of activist scholarship also shows us a way forward. --Erika Robb Larkins, author of The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil With the narrative drive of a captivating novel, the immanent critique of critical theory at its best, the empirical precision and accuracy of an anthropologist whose trust has been hard won in the field, and a bone-deep commitment to Black liberation, The Anti-Black City illustrates how police terror in the favelas of S�o Paulo constitutes a violence of genocidal proportions. This book is a game-changer in the field of anthropology. --Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms

Author Information

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 Afrodiaspricos of Universidad Icesi/Colombia.

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