THE CITY IN THE FRINGES OF CAPITALISM: LIVING IN THE SLUMS AND BEING A BLACK YOUNGSTER
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The paper raises reflections on how black adolescents who live in the slums build their identity out of their relationship with the space and the access to citizenship. We criticize the Brazilian political system and changes that have taken place in last the ten years. We also criticize the relations that the State establishes in its base to guarantee its permanence in the power and to deny the commitments assumed with the black population before election. In the same direction, the social presence of Non Governmental Organizations and social movements in the city slums reiterate the absence of the State power, and also take advantage of the local populations to maintain their benefits of social appropriation instead of promoting and feeding the inhabitants the search for real citizenship. In this criticism, we figured that the formation of black people’s identity forges the conditions of interpretation of the globalized context, launching them as protagonists of eminent social transformations.
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