TONS DO NEGRO NAS MORADIAS URBANAS PERIFÉRICAS: REFLEXOS DO RACISMO BRASILEIRO NA PRECARIEDADE HABITACIONAL E NA NEGAÇÃO DO DIREITO À CIDADE

Resumen

The Brazilian urban space includes complex relations which demand critical theoretical references to understand the imprinted contents that built city shapes. The urban forms in the contemporary globalization express plural dynamics of use and occupation, creating not only the physical and material basis which shapes the city, but also contents which 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. 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 the 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.