O processo de embranquecimento urbano e resistência negra no Centro Histórico de Salvador

Abstract

This master's thesis presents, from a Pan-Africanist perspective, an analysis of the repeated violence and expulsions against the black population of the Historic Center of Salvador, as part of a broader process of anti-blackness socio-spatial ordering, where urban policy plays a central role in disarticulation of the ways of living, living, working and building the territory, typical of the black population. Our practical and reflective experience with social movements fighting for decent housing in the Historic Center of Salvador, based on popular advice as an urban planner, in convergence with elements of militant ethnography constitutes the method by which we investigate the ways of confronting the black population, between 2017 and 2023, given the strategies used by the State together with the private sector in consolidating the Urban Whitening process. We conclude that this process is consolidated with the withdrawal of the black population to attract the white population, through legal-institutional instruments, housing policy, the withdrawal of public services, the criminalization of local commerce, the destruction of symbols and references of the black people and militarized violence against black people, as main elements that affect the population in different dimensions and offer the means of consolidating this process.