BLACK NUANCES IN URBAN OUTSKIRT DWELLINGS: REFLEXES OF BRAZILIAN RACISM IN HABITACIONAL PRECARIETY AND IN THE DENIAL OF RIGHT TO THE CITY

Abstract

Brazilian urban space includes complex relations that demand critical theoretical references to understand the imprinted contents that built city shapes. Urban forms in contemporary globalization express plural dynamics of use and occupation, creating not only the physical and material basis that shapes the city, but also contents that deny and state logics of homogeneity. The inequalities determined by individuals’ skin color are present as a denial of the shape - by housing - whose content reveals precariousness in the housing of Black skin residents. The aim of this article is to analyze the housing conditions of the Blacks, those self-declared Black and Brown, in a district in the outskirts of Sorocaba city in São Paulo, named Jardim Lopes de Oliveira. The intention is to reflect on the impacts of Brazilian racism on the quality of housing and the right to the city. This research is based on the dialectics among phenotype, class, and place, devising non-linearity in the Brazilian racism, and by means of application of questionnaires. Housing is more precarious among those individuals self-declared Black, which reveals a kind of racism anchored in the phenotype and is imprinted in the urban space revealing a critical urbanization.