Afrodiasporic Cities: Spacial Histories of Race and City in Belo Horizonte

Join us for a lecture by Natália Alves da Silva, PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The debate on race relations has benefited from the renewed criticism of racism as a planetary system of domination. There has been a great reaction to the empirical, theoretical and epistemological silencing that relegated these issues to the background, highlighting the impossibility of understanding the urban space without accounting for the processes of racialization. Drawing on her ongoing doctoral research in the City of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais (Brazil), Natália Alves da Silva presents the debate on the “spatiality” of racial relations, emphasizing the spatial inequalities of race as well as black agencies in the dispute over the meaning of the body and space.