Ethical ethnographic engagement is crucial for understanding the beautiful and harsh realities of Black women’s grassroots organizing amidst community and state violence. This talk describes how anthropological work with land and housing activists in Brazil can be a collaborative process that produces data, scholarship and creative works that support urban social struggles against housing evictions and forced displacements.
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. With an emphasis on the United States, Jamaica, and Brazil, she continues to write on issues of Black land ownership and loss, housing evictions, and the related gendered racial logics of Black dispossession in the Americas.
Part of the Kennedy Center's Winter 2022 lecture series, "Engaging Global Inequality."