Editors’ Choice: Re/Mapping São Paulo’s Geographies of African Descent
Digital Humanities Now 2020-02-27
Summary:
In 1985, the Black Women’s Collective of São Paulo gathered in Brasilândia, a district with one of the city’s largest concentration of African descendants, to celebrate the renaming of a public plaza for Luíza Mahin (Figure 1). Mahin is commonly remembered for her involvement in uprisings of enslaved and free Africans in Salvador, Bahia, in...