Between Orality and WritingPerspectives on Brazilian Reality in the Subjectivation of a Black Sense of Place

Resumo

The article examines a Black sense of place from a Brazilian perspective, situating it within a colonial, enslaving past that has continued to shape contemporary social and spatial relations. The study argues that this sense of place may be understood through the interplay between the processes of writing and orality. Drawing on the theoretical construction of these two conceptual operators, the text revisits key national legal milestones that have historically sustained the exclusion of the Black population, materialized in what is termed a “Brazilian-style spatial apartheid”, manifested in the urban environment. The empirical focus is the city of Belo Horizonte, whose origin was permeated by institutional practices legitimized through legal texts imbued with intrinsic racial logics. These written frameworks are counterposed by orality, especially through the central role of quilombola matriarchs, which have resisted hegemonic processes and constitute forms of re-existence of the Black population.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2026

Instituição

ANPUR

Fonte

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.22296/2317-1529.rbeur.20261en

Identificador

oai:ojs.rbeur.anpur.org.br:article/7904

Licença

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Palavras-chave

Questão colonial brasileiraRacialidadeSegregação socioespacialOralidadeEspaço urbanoTeorias urbanasBrazilian Colonial QuestionRacialitySocio-spatial SegregationOralityPublic SpaceUrban Theories