CAPITAL'S EVICTION ROOM GENTRIFICATION, RACISM AND THE SLUMIZATION OF LIFE

Abstract

This paper analyzes gentrification processes from an intersectional perspective, considering markers of race, class, and territory. Inspired by Carolina Maria de Jesus's work "Quarto de Despejo," the text argues that gentrification functions as a modern tool of exclusion and urban reorganization, expelling Black and peripheral populations from urban centers under the pretext of progress and revitalization. This analysis uses references such as Beatriz Nascimento, Nancy Fraser, Karl Marx, and Neil Smith to discuss how capital transforms territories of resistance into commodities, erasing memories, affections, and rights. The city of Salvador is used as a study object, highlighting how public policies and private interests converge to intensify socio-spatial and racial inequalities. Finally, this essay denounces the logic of "cannibal capitalism" and proposes a reflection on the right to the city as a right to memory, identity, and permanence.