Arts
In this episode, Patti Anahory interviews Gabriela Leandro Pereira, professor of architecture and urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. Professor Gabriela Leandro speaks about her work with Coletiva Terra Preta, a collective of five Afro-Brazilian women who created the podcast series ‘Des-embraquecendo a Cidade’, loosely translated to "de/un-whitening the city". bio Gabriela Leandro Pereira is an architect and urban planner. She graduated from the Federal University of Espírito Santo and obtained her masters and doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Bahia, both in Brazil. She won the Thesis Prize with her dissertation entitled "Body, discourse and territory: City in dispute in the narrative of Carolina Maria de Jesus". She is a professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador. Her main areas of research and teaching are: narrative, history and memory of the city; the history of architecture and urbanism; contemporary urban processes; urban politics and culture. transcript in **english** available at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yUxffdehvZ0iNJ_8B718wljAOzqUBwXr In this episode Gabriela Leandro mentioned: ’Des-embranquecendo a Cidade’ - podcast series https://open.spotify.com/show/32m8V5IJsSlaE55ubXjH00?si=WOh3ft20Q9eozgOXN1Wzag https://www.archdaily.com.br/br/923493/des-embranquecendo-a-cidade Gabriela Leandro Pereira’s PhD thesis: https://www.scribd.com/document/357966861/Tese-gabriela-Leandro-Pereira Colectiva Terra Preta: Emmily Leandro, Gabriela Leandro Pereira (Gaia), Luciana Mairynk, Maria Luiza de Barros(Malu), Natalia Alves: https://medium.com/@terrapreta/des-embranquecendo-a-cidade-c5635dd0c2ff Encontro Nacional da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Planejamento Urbano e Regional: http://anpur.org.br/xviiienanpur/anaisadmin/capapdf-sl.php?reqid=179 http://anpur.org.br/xviiienanpur/ Gloria E. Anzaldúa - scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory Beatriz Nascimento - was an Afro-Brazilian academic and activist Castiel Vitorino - artist, a psychology student and macumba practicer Carolina Maria de Jesus - was a Brazilian writer from São Paulo, Brazil. One of her best known work is her diary which was published as Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Leda Maria Martins - Brazilian poet, essayist, academic and playwright. See [in english] "Spiral Time: An Approach to African-Brazilian Ritual Cosmovision." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGt8Jaeke9Q