React or Be Killed: The History of Policing and the Struggle against Anti-Black Violence in Salvador, Brazil

Andreia Beatriz Silva dos Santos is a doctor specializing in family and community medicine with a master’s degree in community health. She is coordinator of the political organization React or Be Killed, which fights against the genocide perpetrated against Black people. She is on the medical faculty at Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil) and conducts research into the health of the Black population and those inside the prison system, and on the struggle against anti-Black violence.

Fábio Nascimento-Mandingo is a historian with a master’s degree in education, and postgraduate study in Afro-Brazilian cultural history. He is a devotee of the orixá Xangô and practices capoeira Angola. He is the author of three literary works: Salvador negro rancor (2011), Morte e vida Virgulina (2013), and Muito como um rei (2015). He was born in Santo Amaro and raised in Salvador in northeastern Brazil and is a father and a common man.

Amy Chazkel, a member of the Radical History Review Editorial Collective, teaches history at Columbia University. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazil, particularly its cities, at the intersection of sociolegal studies and the humanities. She is the author of books and articles on clandestine gambling, the history of the prisons and urban policing, and the criminalization of everyday life. She is completing a book on the urban nighttime in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro.