Black women against the land grab: the fight for racial justice in Brazil

Introduction: Diasporic Blackness and Afro-Brazilian Agency

1. Engendering the Grassroots

2. The Gendered Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion

3. The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers

4. Violent Policing and Disposing Urban Landscapes

5. "Picking Up the Pieces": Everyday Violence and Community

6. Politics Is a Women's Thing

Conclusion. Above the Asphalt: From the Margins to the Center of Black Diaspora Politics.