Land Regularization and Minorities

as a form of legal, economic, social and cultural empowerment

Abstract

Brazil's segregationist land tenure history has been a determining factor in the concentration of rural properties in the hands of a white elite to this day, as demonstrated by the Family Farming Map for the second decade of the 21st century, prepared by the IBGE, while urban socio-spatial segregation is framed within notorious concepts of inequality, such as environmental racism and whiteness of property. The affirmative actions that permeate the public policy of land regularization in Brazil, through preferences for minorities, would in this sense be a settlement of the debt in relation to Brazil's historical land tenure racism - the concentration of land income in the hands of a land-owning elite, the greater subjection of the most economically vulnerable to climate risks and disasters, whiteness of property tenure in relation to blacks, browns and indigenous people and the historical inequality in the protection of women, despite their role as the support and care of the family. Such actions must be reinforced, or serve as a gradient for the universalization of rights, through intersectionalities that affect racialized women in the city and countryside (black, indigenous, quilombola, etc.) to a greater degree – and coloration – or first position for whom all these biases multiply exponentially.