Black territories

a socio-racial analysis in times of COVID-19

Abstract

The expansion of COVID-19 pandemic reveals the scales of inequalities in Brazil, by the structures created for pandemic management, in a reality that
violates access to rights for Black population in the cities of Salvador and Rio de Janeiro. The analysis of racial inequalities in both cities is based on theoretical and methodological bases on racism and inequalities in spaces ordered by colonialism. Public policies to combat the virus of COVID-19 reflect unequal cities, with high inhumanity in guaranteeing rights to essential goods and services, based on the non-recognition of rights for the entire population. The pandemic is placed in the deepening of this inhumanity and shows, in urban planning, the weaknesses, in what was constituted in decades with the legalization of the criminalization of Black occupations, which seek in the slum or peripheral land the acceptance of the exclusion resulting from the land market and the urban landscape.