I’ll Samba Someplace Else

A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo

Andrew G. Britt

• Editorial: Duke University Press Books
• Año: 2026
• ISBN de la versión impresa:
  9781478032816
  9781478029373
• ISBN del libro electrónico:
  9781478061571
• Categoría: Historia
• Categoría: Historia de Latinoamérica y el Caribe

In I'll Samba Someplace Else, Andrew G. Britt maps the interwoven histories of three of the city of São Paulo's most iconic ethnoracialized neighborhoods, popularly known as "African" Brasilândia, "Japanese" Liberdade, and "Italian" Bexiga. Following these spaces over the mid-twentieth century through inventive methods of spatial history, archival research, and sustained engagement with African-descendent cultural organizations, Britt shows that these ethnoracialized neighborhoods did not accrue naturally over time. Instead, they were planned, produced, and contested by an array of individuals, from powerful urbanist-politicians and neighborhood businessowners to celebrated samba composers and historic preservationists. The ethnoracialization of these neighborhoods, Britt argues, served paradoxical ends: it reproduced consequential racialized inequities while, simultaneously, bolstering discourses of multicultural harmony. By untangling the paradoxes of ethnoracial space in Brazil's most populous, diverse, and unequal city, I'll Samba Someplace Else elucidates how popular ideologies of multiculturalism endure despite persistently high levels of racialized inequity and anti-Black violence in both Brazil and beyond.

Índice

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. The Paradoxes of Ethnoracial Space
• One. Avenues and the Afterlives of Slavery
• Two. Spatial Projects of Forgetting
• Three. Neighborhoods of Mixture and Massacre
• Four. Belonging-as-Being: Brasilândia as “Little Africa”
• Five. Producing Ethnoracial Infrastructures: Making “Japanese” Liberdade and “Italian” Bexiga
• Epilogue. Early 1970s: “Asphalt Has Today Covered Our Ground”
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index