scholarly journals TOWARDS OTHER NARRATIVES: EDUCATION AND DERACIALIZATION OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRAZIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (171) ◽  
pp. 288-307
Author(s):  
Priscila Martins Medeiros ◽  
Paulo Alberto dos Santos Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Black People ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
National Question ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Brazilian Identity ◽  
Black Agency

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the historical process involved in the construction of the Brazilian national identity, based on the racialization of the black experience, an element still present in the Brazilian identity formation process. Despite the processes of dehumanization endured by black people, they can and must be portrayed in educational spaces for their resistance and fight in order to escape from the zone of non-being and ontological erasure caused by modernity. The paper is organized in three general topics: a) racism, education and the national question in Brazil; b) the processes of racialization of black subjects; and c) black resistance and black agency as a way to construct new narratives in the field of education.

scholarly journals IMAGENS DE EXCLUSÃO DE NEGROS /AS EM PRODUÇÃO DE CONHECIMENTO NAS UNIVERSIDADES PÚBLICAS.IMAGES OF EXCLUSION OF BLACKS IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

PontodeAcesso ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Jobson Francisco Da Silva Júnior ◽  
Ronhely Pereira Severo ◽  
Mirian De Albuquerque Aquino
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Black People ◽  
National Development ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Cultural Visibility ◽  
Socially Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Brazilian Identity

RESUMO: Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar a produção de conhecimento apresentada nos Anais de Encontros de Iniciação Científica da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) referentes ao período de 1998 a 2008. Os processos que envolvem a produção de conhecimento tornam-se objeto de interesse de pesquisadores /as da área da Ciência da Informação nas suas atividades de organização e disseminação da informação de toda a produção de conhecimento nas diversas áreas do saber. A metodologia utilizada é fundamentada na epistemologia dos Estudos Culturais cuja concepção é direcionada a visibilidade cultural dos mais diversos grupos sociais, articulada a abordagem qualitativa que responde a indagações inerentes as Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, tendo em vista que o direcionamento metodológico se preocupa com a (in) visibilidade de grupos socialmente vulneráveis. Consideramos o uso do método interpretativista para análise de dados, atrelado a abordagem discursiva ao percebermos que sujeito e contexto são indissociáveis aliados a historicidade e cultura que perpassa os construtos ideológicos das atividades discursivas geradoras desta interação. Concebendo a ciência como uma prática resultante do processo de interação dos sujeitos com os objetos físicos, históricos e culturais e outros sujeitos percebendo a relevância deste estudo no que se refere à abordagem da temática étnico-racial como contributo para a reconstrução do repertório cultural de forma a erradicar o preconceito, a discriminação e o racismo na produção de conhecimento, disseminado essa produção, promovendo reflexões acerca da urgência de atitudes sócio-governamentais de inclusão da população negra nos processos de desenvolvimento nacional bem como a consideração do contributo afrodescendente para a formação da identidade brasileira. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: IMAGES OF EXCLUSION OF BLACKS IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES ABSTRACT: This article aims to analyze the knowledge production presented in the Annals of Meetings of Scientific Initiation from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) during the period from 1998 to 2008. The processes involved in the knowledge production have become an interest object for researchers from the Information Science area, in their activities of organization and dissemination of information throughout the knowledge production in the various fields of knowledge. The methodology is based on the Cultural Studies’ epistemology which conception concerns to cultural visibility of many social groups, added to qualitative approach that replies questions inherent to Applied Social Sciences, considering that the methodological procedure concerns about the (in)visibility of socially vulnerable groups. It considers the use of interpretativist method for data analyses, associated to discursive approach, since we realize that subject and context are inseparable historicity and culture allies that permeates the ideological constructs of discursive activities generating of this interaction. It conceives science as a practice resulting from the interactive process between individuals with historical and cultural physical objects with other subjects, and it perceives the relevance of this study in relation to the approach of ethno-racial thematic as a contribution to the reconstruction of the cultural repertoire in order to eradicate prejudice, discrimination and racism on knowledge production, as well as disseminating this production, promoting reflections on the urgency of social-governmental attitudes of black people inclusion in the national development processes considering the afro-descendant contribution to brazilian identity formation. KEYWORDS: Knowledge Production. Images of exclusion of Blacks. Public Universities. Memory of Science.

scholarly journals “They Made us into a Race. We Made Ourselves into a People”: A Corpus Study of Contemporary Black American Group Identity in the Non-Fictional Writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Hathaway
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Black People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Black American ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Black America ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
American Group ◽  
Identity Based

AbstractThis article examines representations of contemporary Black American identity in the non-fictional writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates. The dataset is a self-compiled specialized corpus of Coates’s non-fictional writings from 1996 until 2018 (350 texts; 468,899 words). The study utilizes an interdisciplinary approach combining corpus linguistics and corpus pragmatics. Frequencies of five identity-related terms in the corpus (African(–)Americans, blacks, black people, black America/Americans and black community/communities) are compared diachronically; then the pragmatic prosody of the terms is analyzed via the notion of control. The findings suggest that Coates’s representation of Black American group identity has shifted over time. Specifically, the terms African Americans and black America are replaced by the terms blacks and black people. The study’s empirical findings, considered through the theoretical framework on Black solidarity, suggest a shift in representation of group identity in Coates’s writings from an identity based on cultural and ethnic commonalities to an identity based on the shared experiences of anti-Black racism.

For My People

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Luckett
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
State College ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Margaret Walker

When Margaret Walker founded the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People in 1968, she stood at the forefront of a nascent Black studies movement. At the time, she had served on the faculty at Jackson State College since 1949. In both a racist and a sexist society, she used her scholarship and art as vehicles for activism. Today, the Margaret Walker Center, named for its founder, continues to lift up her legacy as a museum and special collections archive dedicated to Black experience in America.

Nigger and Home

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
White People ◽  
Free People Of Color ◽  
White Children ◽  
Antebellum America ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Free People

Chapter 1 is an etymology of the word nigger. Colored travelers described the word and the ideology it represented as a constantly looming threat. White children chased free people of color down the street shouting the word. White satirists and performers repeated it in literary and theatrical blackface productions that often depicted black caricatures as being dangerous precisely because they freely traversed the nation. In the nominally free states, nigger threatened brutal reprisals and thus shaped the black experience of mobility. This chapter argues that the source of the word’s virulence resided in the fact that African Americans in antebellum America had long used the word nigger to describe themselves and others. Black laborers adopted the word into their own vocabularies to subvert white authority. Whites therefore very much understood the word as part of the black lexicon. In turn, they ventriloquized nigger to mock black speech, black mobility, and, ultimately, black freedom. Considering nigger not solely as a white antiblack epithet but also as a word rooted in African American cultural and protest traditions goes a long way toward solving the perennial American racial conundrum of why black people can say nigger and white people should not.

scholarly journals “A Man's Story is His Gris-Gris”: Cultural Slavery, Literary Emancipation and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
Black Nationalism ◽  
Black Writers ◽  
Black Aesthetic ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
Black Characters ◽  
The Common ◽  
New Criteria

With the emergence of black nationalism in the late sixties, the delineation of a new black aesthetic became an urgent issue: it was first and most persistently raised by Hoyt Fuller in Negro Digest, and soon became the staple of radical black little magazines across America. In 1971, the appearance of a collection of essays entitled The Black Aesthetic and edited by Addison Gayle brought some coherence to the debate, and sanctified its assumptions. In his own contributions to that book, Gayle recorded the passing of the myth of the American melting pot and the consequent need to repudiate assimilationism. He argued that black nationalism implied the development of a black aesthetic in direct opposition to prevailing aesthetic criteria, in which white cultural concerns were privileged under a guise of “universalism”: this bogus universalism actually depended upon the marginalization of black perspectives and black writers by a white literary establishment. Such observations established the need for a new black aesthetic, and prescriptions for its form proliferated. These blueprints were handed down at a series of conferences at which black writers past and present stood trial against the new criteria. The emergent consensus was for writing that directly recreated the black experience out of which it arose; that found its style in the forms of “black folk expression”; that was socially progressive in effect – according to a very literal concept of functional literature; that addressed itself to the common readership of black people; and that assiduously cultivated positive black characters.

‘Race’ and Resistance to Policing Before the ‘Windrush Years’: The Colonial Defence Committee and the Liverpool ‘Race Riots’ of 1948

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Fevre
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Black People ◽  
National Level ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Abstract Between 31 July and 2 August 1948, Liverpool experienced three nights of racial violence on a scale not witnessed since the end of the First World War. Despite being initiated by white rioters, the so-called ‘race riots’ of 1948 were more significant in terms of the relationship between the police and Liverpool’s black population. Previous studies have sought to understand why and what happened during the riots; however, there has been little analysis of the aftermath. This article looks specifically at how black people responded to the ‘race riots’ in 1948 and argues that this episode led to a period of heightened political activity at a local and national level centred around the issue of policing. It focusses on the Colonial Defence Committee (CDC) that was formed immediately after the riots to organize the legal defence of individuals believed to have been wrongfully arrested. In its structure and organizational methods, the CDC represented a prototype of the defence committees that became a hallmark of black political opposition to policing during the 1970s and 1980s. Examining the aftermath of the Liverpool ‘race riots’ in 1948, thus, offers new perspectives on the historical development of black political resistance to policing in twentieth-century Britain. On the one hand, it reveals a longer history of struggle against racially discriminatory policing, which predates the ‘Windrush years’ migration of the 1950s and early 1960s. It also highlights the historical continuities in the way that black resistance to policing manifested itself over the twentieth century.

Comparative Associations Between Achieved Bicultural Identity, Achieved Ego Identity, and Achieved Religious Identity and Adaptation Among Australian Adolescent Muslims

2017 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisham M. Abu-Rayya ◽  
Maram H. Abu-Rayya ◽  
Fiona A. White ◽  
Richard Walker
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Identity Based

This study examined the comparative roles of biculturalism, ego identity, and religious identity in the adaptation of Australian adolescent Muslims. A total of 504 high school Muslim students studying at high schools in metropolitan Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, took part in this study which required them to complete a self-report questionnaire. Analyses indicated that adolescent Muslims’ achieved religious identity seems to play a more important role in shaping their psychological and socio-cultural adaptation compared to adolescents’ achieved bicultural identity. Adolescents’ achieved ego identity tended also to play a greater role in their psychological and socio-cultural adaptation than achieved bicultural identity. The relationships between the three identities and negative indicators of psychological adaptation were consistently indifferent. Based on these findings, we propose that the three identity-based forces—bicultural identity development, religious identity attainment, and ego identity formation—be amalgamated into one framework in order for researchers to more accurately examine the adaptation of Australian adolescent Muslims.

scholarly journals Bosnia, Neoliberal Capitalism, Conservative Consciousness, and Citizens' Naivety

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Senadin Lavić
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The People ◽  
National Question ◽  
Wrong Direction ◽  
Challenging Question ◽  
The 19Th Century

The historical process has posed a challenging question about Bosnia's national identity today. It is quite obvious that since the end of the 19th century, the historical course of a nation has been reduced to a "religious group" in which it is possible to recognize regression and unconscious existence. This represents a trace of the Ottoman period of hegemony in Bosnia, when the identity of the people was determined by religious affiliation. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in Bosnia, left Bosniaks solely perceived and defined as Muslims. What looks like naivety and powerlessness during the 20th century, should in fact be seen as ignorance of, and non-reflexivity on, one's own existence. In the Yugoslav system, they were designated as Muslims - with the capital letter M. At the time, it was announced as the solution to the national question! The clash of unfinished ethnic-religious constructions of Bosniak identity and the process of globalization in the first decades of the 21st century, led to paradoxical and somewhat tragic self-experiences and attempts to develop national consciousness, based on a religious matrix that is the foundation of conservative consciousness. This moves the whole of human destinies in the wrong direction once again, and the importance of the national or civic identity and political philosophy of statism are undermined and blurred by non-reflexive voluntarism. It seems that citizens’ naivety and their lack of knowledge about themselves and their own state framework, have led to a disastrous anti-Bosnian mentality and the extinguishing of the Bosnian national civic identity.

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