Racial capital and white middle class territorialization in Salvador, Brazil

In this article we seek to first conceptualize whiteness as racial capital and then apply this conceptualization to analyze how whiteness functions in structuring social space in Salvador, Brazil. This article thus seeks to put into conversation different bodies of literature, namely race and racial...

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Published in:Latin American and Caribbean ethnic studies 2022-04, Vol.17 (2), p.243-260
Main Authors: Maia, Suzana, Reiter, Bernd
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Belonging
Brazil
Concept formation
Condominiums
gender
Gender differences
Intersectionality
Living space
Middle class
Mobility
Occupational status
Race
racial capital
Racialization
Social space
territory
whiteness
Work organization
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Summary:In this article we seek to first conceptualize whiteness as racial capital and then apply this conceptualization to analyze how whiteness functions in structuring social space in Salvador, Brazil. This article thus seeks to put into conversation different bodies of literature, namely race and racialization, critical whiteness studies, class analysis, gender analysis, and territorial analysis. In other words, we seek to provide an intersectional territorialization of how race, class, status, and gender work together to structure urban living space in general and in private, middle-class condominiums in particular. We do so by focusing on the intersection between whiteness and belonging to the middle to upper-middle classes and the mechanisms by which the approach to a white identity functions as a factor of racial capital and socioeconomic mobility.
ISSN:1744-2222
1744-2230
DOI:10.1080/17442222.2021.1915445