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Horto Article. Original Art by Natalia S. Flores

The Horto Community and the Fight for an Ancestral Territory in the Context of Environmental Racism

By Carolina Câmara Pires dos Santos, Emerson de Souza, Emilia Maria de Souza, Paula Máximo de Barros Pinto, Rafael da Mota Mendonça • Translation by Eduardo Antunez Rolle, Gabriela Buffon Vargas, Grant Brown, Saskia Wright • August 30, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This article describes the implicit racism reflected in the constant threats of eviction of the bicentennial Horto community, and is part of a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel […]