@article{710508,
      recid = {710508},
      author = {Perry, Keisha-Khan Y.},
      title = {Black women against the land grab : the fight for racial  justice in Brazil /},
      pages = {xxi, 213 pages :},
      abstract = {" In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black  women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered  leaders of social movements let alone political theorists.  But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is  these very women who determine how urban policies are  established. Focusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood  in Salvador's city center, Black Women against the Land  Grab explores how black women's views on development have  radicalized local communities to demand justice and social  change. In Black Women against the Land Grab, Keisha-Khan  Y. Perry describes the key role of local women activists in  the citywide movement for land and housing rights. She  reveals the importance of geographic location for  understanding the gendered aspects of urban renewal and the  formation of black women-led social movements. How have  black women shaped the politics of urban redevelopment,  Perry asks, and what does this kind of political  intervention tell us about black women's agency? Her work  uncovers the ways in which political labor at the  neighborhood level is central to the mass mobilization of  black people against institutional racism and for  citizenship rights and resources in Brazil. Highlighting  the political life of black communities, specifically those  in urban contexts often represented as socially  pathological and politically bankrupt, Black Women against  the Land Grab offers a valuable corrective to how we think  about politics and about black women, particularly poor  black women, as a political force. "--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/710508},
}