FROM THE ‘BLACK PEOPLE PROBLEM’ TO THE DIFFICULTIES OF ‘BEING AND LIVING BLACK’ IN BRAZIL: SOME AFROCENTRATED AND ANTI-RACIST REFLECTIONS
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The starting point of this article is an epistemological and methodological reflection. It starts from two distinct and diametrically opposed assumptions in the study of race relations: what Nina Rodrigues in the first decade of the 20th century formulated as being “the problem of the black” and what Abdias do Nascimento in 1978 problematized as the difficulties in “being and living black ”in Brazil. The perspective of Nina Rodrigues that poses blacks as a problem comes from racial theories of the early 20th century and leads to a critical and anti-racist analysis of the reality of Salvador. An Afrocentric analytical perspective, as well as a field research at the Irmandade do Rosário dos Pretos in Salvador da Bahia, show that we must find anti-racist and decolonial epistemological and methodological mechanisms to capture the experiences of being and living black in Brazil.
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