Anti–White Patriarchal Ultramodernity / Ultramodernidade Anti-blancopatriarcal: Peripheral Dissent and Gender Battles in São Gonçalo

The focus in this chapter is on working-class neighborhoods, anti-Black moral panic, and identifying contractions of modernity through ultramodernity. This chapter traces the process by which subjectivities and cultural practices incorporate the contradictions of modernity—what is here referred to as ultramodernity—and its promises of universal emancipation vis-à-vis the raw materiality of race and gender. Through case studies—in the popular (working-class) neighborhood of Jardim Catarina—the chapter traces processes of universalization and individualism, as seen from a context of urban poverty. To trace the implications of these overlapping processes, the chapter discusses the process of subjectivation mediated through relative material deprivation.