Dirt and Debt: The Racialization of Default in Brazil

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Kathleen Millar
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Abstract

Beginning in the early 2000s, policies and legislation aimed at financial inclusion drew millions of low-income Brazilians into the banking system for the first time. When many of these consumers were unable to keep up with credit card payments, they acquired a “dirty name”—the common expression in Brazil for default. An analysis of the historical origins and current use of this expression shows how it operates as a technology of racialization that legitimates forms of expropriation under financial capitalism. Drawing upon longstanding associations between Blackness and dirt in Brazil, the expression “dirty name” naturalizes inequalities while erasing alternative financial practices and relations in Brazil’s urban peripheries.
泥土与债务:巴西违约的种族化
从 2000 年代初开始,旨在实现金融普惠的政策和立法吸引了数百万低收入巴西人首次进入银行系统。当这些消费者中的许多人无法按时使用信用卡还款时,他们就获得了一个 "肮脏的名字"--巴西人对拖欠还款的通俗说法。对这一表述的历史渊源和当前使用情况的分析表明,它是如何作为一种种族化技术运作的,从而使金融资本主义下的征用形式合法化。在巴西,"肮脏的名字 "这一表述利用了黑人与肮脏之间的长期联系,将不平等自然化,同时抹杀了巴西城市边缘地区的其他金融实践和关系。
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Anthropologica
Anthropologica Social Sciences-Anthropology
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0.70
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71
审稿时长
8 weeks
期刊介绍: Anthropologica is the official publication of the Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne d"anthropologie. A biannual journal, it publishes peer-reviewed articles in both French and English devoted to social and cultural issues whether they are pre-historic, historic, contemporary, biological, linguistic, applied or theoretical in orientation.
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