The subject, the other, and black political identities among Afro-Brazilians
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Center for Latin American Studies, University of ArizonaIssue Date
2021-07-12
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Silva, A. J. B. D., & de Almeida, A. R. B. (2021). The subject, the other, and black political identities among Afro-Brazilians. Social Identities.Journal
Social IdentitiesRights
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
This study combines anthropology and psychoanalysis to explore the formation of black identities in Afro-Brazilians’ antiracist struggles. Using data from long-term ethnographic fieldwork among black activists in Salvador and current observations of social media, we explore how various antiracist struggles have become discursive microsystems that organize individual identities into collective processes. Beyond analyzing Afro-Brazilian activism as a collective force, it is important to account for the differences between individual black subjects. Since it is through the other that the subject continually experiences itself, we listen to the individual that is embedded in the social field to demonstrate that the struggle between sameness and difference is at the heart of antiracist activism among Afro-Brazilians. As Afro-Brazilians embrace antiracist activism, their black political identities become dialogized, or defined by their position in relation to the other and recognition of how others perceive them in a country where skin color, not ancestry, determines racial difference.Note
18 month embargo; published online: 12 July 2021ISSN
1350-4630EISSN
1363-0296Version
Final accepted manuscriptae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/13504630.2021.1952861