TY - BOOK ID - 101616483 TI - Defiant geographies PY - 2020 SN - 0822987368 0822946009 9780822987369 9780822946007 9780822946007 PB - Pittsburgh, Pa. DB - UniCat KW - City planning KW - Urban poor KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - City planning. KW - Social conditions. KW - Urban poor. KW - General. KW - 1900-1999 KW - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) KW - Brazil KW - City dwellers KW - Poor KW - Cities and towns KW - Civic planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - Model cities KW - Redevelopment, Urban KW - Slum clearance KW - Town planning KW - Urban design KW - Urban development KW - Urban planning KW - Land use KW - Planning KW - Art, Municipal KW - Civic improvement KW - Regional planning KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - Government policy KW - Management KW - Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) KW - Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) KW - Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) KW - Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) KW - Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) KW - Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) KW - Rio (Brazil) KW - Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) KW - Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101616483 AB - "Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil's first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its postabolition whitening ideology took on material form in the urban development project that staged Latin America's first World's Fair. The book explores official efforts to reorganize space that equated modernization with racial progress. It also considers the ways in which black and blackened subjects mobilized their own spatial logics to introduce alternative ways of occupying the city. Leu unpacks how the spaces of the urban poor are racialized, and the impact of this process for those who do not fit the ideal models of urbanity that come to define the national project. Defiant Geographies puts the mutual production of race and space at the heart of scholarship on Brazil's urban development and understands urban reform as a monumental act of forgetting the country's racial past."-- ǂc Publisher description. ER -