This project juxtaposes urban theory with ethnographic fiction to demonstrate the politics of African (Senegalese, Malian, Congolese and Angolan) and Haitian migrant presence and urban infrastructure in the new Global South destination point of São Paulo, Brazil. The project emerged from 15 months of fieldwork and explores “black” subjectivities as they relate to residential, cultural, commercial and religious spaces in the city. Due to the precarity of the situation and the existential nature of many consultants’ experiences, I find it intellectually and ethically rewarding to push the boundaries of text, image and sound; fiction and non-fiction, as the politics and geographies of race and belonging converge.