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ethnic enclaves
ethnoracial infrastructure
historic preservation
historical mapping
Liberdade neighborhood
myth of racial harmony
neighborhoods
Nossa Senhora do O parish
post-racialism
Prestes Maia
Rosas de Ouro
Samba
Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo samba
second slavery
sociospatial inequality
spatial praxis
The Avenues Plan
tourism
urban development
Urban periphery
urban planning
urban redevelopment
urban renewal
Product details
- ISBN 9781478032816
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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” Brasilãndia, “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.
Andrew G. Britt is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas.
