I'll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo

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Andrew G. Britt

I'll Samba Someplace Else

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A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo

Andrew G. Britt

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Duke University Press
07 April 2026

History of the Americas; Social discrimination; Urban communities; Ethnic studies; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

In I’ll Samba Someplace Else, Andrew G. Britt maps the interwoven histories of three of the city of São Paulo’s most iconic ethnoracialized neighborhoods, popularly known as “African” Brasilãndia, “Japanese” Liberdade, and “Italian” Bexiga. Following these spaces over the mid-twentieth century through inventive methods of spatial history, archival research, and sustained engagement with African-descendent cultural organizations, Britt shows that these ethnoracialized neighborhoods did not accrue naturally over time. Instead, they were planned, produced, and contested by an array of individuals, from powerful urbanist-politicians and neighborhood businessowners to celebrated samba composers and historic preservationists. The ethnoracialization of these neighborhoods, Britt argues, served paradoxical ends: it reproduced consequential racialized inequities while, simultaneously, bolstering discourses of multicultural harmony. By untangling the paradoxes of ethnoracial space in Brazil’s most populous, diverse, and unequal city, I’ll Samba Someplace Else elucidates how popular ideologies of multiculturalism endure despite persistently high levels of racialized inequity and anti-Black violence in both Brazil and beyond.

By: Andrew G. Britt
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9781478032816
ISBN 10: 1478032812
Pages: 406
Publication Date: 07 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Andrew G. Britt is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas.

Reviews for I'll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo

“I’ll Samba Someplace Else is an outstanding book that offers a fresh perspective on the ways in which race and ethnicity have been inscribed into the urban geography, shaping vast inequalities in São Paulo over the past century.”—Bryan McCann, author of, Hard Times in the Marvelous City