{"product_id":"defiant-geographies-lorraine-leu-9780822946007","title":"Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro","description":"\u003ci\u003eDefiant Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eDefiant Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorraine Leu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822946009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822946007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d","brand":"Lorraine Leu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425088946431,"sku":"9780822946007","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_337e3742-7340-47ad-8132-68a14fe0e283.jpg?v=1761536932","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defiant-geographies-lorraine-leu-9780822946007","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}