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OCCUPATIONS, BLACK SPATIAL PRAXIS AND WHITOPIA: TOWARDS A CRITIQUE OF WHITENESS IN URBAN STUDIES ON SÃO PAULO

ABSTRACT

Based on ethnographic research, this article traces the controlled equivocation of worker from the critique of the whiteness of the political economy of urbanization and urban studies on São Paulo. After that, some contributions to an anti-whiteness academic production are presented, based on the recognition of the occupation of buildings and land, the circulation of black bodies in the city and the practice of imagination and production of life as black praxis and refusal to the confinement of whitopia.

KEYWORDS:
Housing; controlled equivocation; racial relations; afrofuturism; worker

Universidade de São Paulo - USP Departamento de Antropologia. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Universidade de São Paulo. Prédio de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais - Sala 1062. Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315, Cidade Universitária. , Cep: 05508-900, São Paulo - SP / Brasil, Tel:+ 55 (11) 3091-3718 - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
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