Identidade racial como plataforma mobilizadora: alcances e limites

• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, Sabrina de Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/26069
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS; Identidade; Raça; Negritude; Identidade negra; Identity; Race; Blackness; Black identity

Although it is not any news, the debate about the concept of identity is latent in the academic discussions, in the social movements etc… Specially in the agenda of racial identity, the discussion has gotten great visibility. If race and racism were “unspoken themes” in a recent past Brazil, recently it has become a discussion even in the mainstream media agenda. Nowadays the question of black people in society has gotten more and more recognition. In the second half of the twentieth century, intellectuals and activists of the black movement addressed the difficulty of constructing a black identity due to the myth of racial democracy. The discussion on the challenge of promoting a recognition of the black people identity in the country was on topic, and the affirmation of blackness would be the first step to the mobilization of black women and black men to fight racism and social inequality. Taking into consideration the importance of identity for the black movements, the changes over the debate on race and the promotion of the black identity, this research raises some questions to understand the meanings of mobilization around race identity and in what manner can identity mobilize anti-racist strugles