Depois da Central: Circulação e raça na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This dissertation was born out of the difficult life journey of moving around the streets of Rio de Janeiro as a black person. This research seeks to debate the production of cities and how the barriers built by racial markers directly affect the life and movement of the black population living in this city. Racism operates in different ways, whether through more perceptible actions of racial violence, or through more crystallized modes in society. This reality makes it difficult for certain spaces to be frequented by black people and exposes an urban sociability that is racist. The streets are not experienced in the same way by everyone. They are produced by different processes of subjectivation, they carry morals and political stakes. The power relations in the formation of cities mean that white bodies can move freely, and black bodies have a kind of marker that hinders movement. This dynamic of the city means that we are always marked on the basis of race, which tries to prevent us from coming and going. Understanding the city as a construction based on everyday practice, this research aims to be conducted through a cadenced account of the urban experiences of black people as they move through the streets of the city center and south zone of Rio de Janeiro.