Friday public lectures on Latin America
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Description of the talk: In March 2014, Claudia Ferreira was shot in the neck and back during a pacification operation in neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. After police placed her in the back of the trunk, the police sped off, away from the neighborhood with the trunk left open. and her body dragged more than 250 meters along the streets. Almost exactly four years to the day later, on the night of March 14th, Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco was assassinated by former police officers while leaving an event promoting Black women’s empowerment. Direct assault at the hands of the state is an everyday reality in Black women’s lives in Brazil. Yet, there remains a need to unpack the gendered dimensions of this state violence, and understand the state's unique and deadly relationship to Black women in particular. This conversation will explore antiblack state violence in Brazil, its specifically gendered and inter-generational dimensions and the Black community’s ongoing resistance to this violence.
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