In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Alves examines how white elites in the city of São Paulo shape
and control the life chances of marginalized Afro-Brazilians by excluding them from …

The central question of Jaime Amparo Alves's intellectually and ethically evocative
ethnography, The Anti-Black City, is: How do you bring the dead back to life? Following in …

When Jamie Amparo Alves got to know him, Serginho was a 29-year-old father of two who
lived in a small one-bedroom house in a favela in São Paulo. His only possessions were a …

In a book that both bears witness to and theorizes the genocide of black youth in Sao Paulo,
Jaime Amparo Alves pulls no punches. He condemns a “terrocratic”(23) police force that …

When Jamie Amparo Alves got to know him, Serginho was a 29-year-old father of two who
lived in a small one-bedroom house in a favela in São Paulo. His only possessions were a …

A unique feature of the book is that Alves supports his depiction of São Paulo as “the anti-
Black city” through traditional ethnography and statistical analysis along with personal …

In his remarkable book, Jaime Amparo Alves examines the social geography of black
dispossession as he delves into a particular favela—Brazil's unique version of the …

An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo's favelas revealing the widespread use
of race-based police repression in Brazil While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the …

Alves is honest about who he is and where he speaks from–a black male scholar who grew
up in a favela himself–and also recognises the limitations of his position when addressing …

It was the scene of a war in a country not officially at war: On April 7 of this year, a musician
named Evaldo dos Santos Rosa was driving in Rio de Janeiro with his family to a baby …