Spatial Projects of Forgetting: Razing the Remedies Church and Museum to the Enslaved in São Paulo's ‘Black Zone’, 1930s–1940s

G. Britt, Andrew

doi:10.1017/s0022216x22000669

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Spatial Projects of Forgetting: Razing the Remedies Church and Museum to the Enslaved in São Paulo's ‘Black Zone’, 1930s–1940s

Published in Journal of Latin American Studies • Aug 11, 2022

Authors:

Andrew G. Britt

Abstract

Abstract In the shadows of a Shinto torii (gateway) in São Paulo's ‘Japanese’ neighbourhood rests the city's first burial ground for enslaved Africans. Recently unearthed, the gravesite is one of the few visible remains of the Liberdade neighbourhood's significance in São Paulo's ‘Black zone’. This ...

Subject

Neighbourhood (mathematics)

Demolition

Forgetting

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