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The Anti‐Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. Jaime Amparo Alvez,Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 324 pp.

The Anti‐Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. Jaime Amparo... Book Review The Anti-Black City: Police Terror offers a first-hand account of what and Black Urban Life in Brazil. Jaime people of color endure on a daily basis Amparo Alvez, Minneapolis: University of in Brazil. He debunks the myths of Minnesota Press, 2019, 324 pp. neutral objectivity by openly presenting himself as an activist anthropologist Anahi Viladrich recounting the difficulties, and even risks Queens College of the City University of New to his life, he encountered during York fieldwork. Throughout this book, individual In his remarkable book, Jaime Amparo trajectories of disenfranchised black men Alves examines the social geography of and women are woven into an intimate black dispossession as he delves into a quilt in which the author narrates their particular favela—Brazil’s unique lives and often violent deaths. In version of the shantytown— located in Chapter One, Amparo Alves the urban enclave of São Paulo, the deconstructs the institutionalization of country’s most populated financial police-based death squads, a specific center. A city within a city, the favela is regime of organized violence controlled defined by a racial-apartheid milieu that by the state. The actions of these groups represents the ultimate signifier of moral are painstakingly pieced together and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

The Anti‐Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. Jaime Amparo Alvez,Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 324 pp.

City & Society , Volume 32 (1) – Apr 1, 2020

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0893-0465
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1548-744X
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10.1111/ciso.12230
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Book Review The Anti-Black City: Police Terror offers a first-hand account of what and Black Urban Life in Brazil. Jaime people of color endure on a daily basis Amparo Alvez, Minneapolis: University of in Brazil. He debunks the myths of Minnesota Press, 2019, 324 pp. neutral objectivity by openly presenting himself as an activist anthropologist Anahi Viladrich recounting the difficulties, and even risks Queens College of the City University of New to his life, he encountered during York fieldwork. Throughout this book, individual In his remarkable book, Jaime Amparo trajectories of disenfranchised black men Alves examines the social geography of and women are woven into an intimate black dispossession as he delves into a quilt in which the author narrates their particular favela—Brazil’s unique lives and often violent deaths. In version of the shantytown— located in Chapter One, Amparo Alves the urban enclave of São Paulo, the deconstructs the institutionalization of country’s most populated financial police-based death squads, a specific center. A city within a city, the favela is regime of organized violence controlled defined by a racial-apartheid milieu that by the state. The actions of these groups represents the ultimate signifier of moral are painstakingly pieced together and

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Published: Apr 1, 2020

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