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A Familiar Hillside and Dangerous Intimates
2014
Overview
In Caxambu, daily life and alternating structures of security and insecurity, danger and safety, are experienced in a particular space, one that is both a site of marginalization and a place of pride, deeply connected to residents’ identities. When I asked residents of Caxambu what they thought about their neighborhood, they often responded in either of two ways. On the one hand, some residents—like Seu Oscar, quoted above—spoke about overlapping forms of marginalization. Significantly, Seu Oscar saw the morro as both “the place of blacks” and “where the poor live,” pointing to how patterns of racial discrimination and
