On the other side of the white world:

experiences of the city in contemporary black feminisms.

Abstract

The text investigates the perceptions and narratives of the cities of contemporary black feminisms based on ethnographic work with activists in the Southeast of Brazil between 2016 and 2018. Focusing on the urban trajectories of the black community and, in particular, domestic and sexual workers, I try to demonstrate how these debates consider the relations between gender, race and urban space in the formation and transformation of non-post-abolition cities. From the dynamics developed by these activists, constituted by spaces of confinement and possible transits, it is possible to see the entanglement of labor and moral roles in the constitution of a sexual and racial division of work from white families.