{"id":2880,"date":"2020-06-01T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/?page_id=2880"},"modified":"2023-04-04T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T20:22:55","slug":"thesis-nailah-harris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/thesis-nailah-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruption of Order and Maintenance of Progress; Exploring the Process(es) of Affirming Black Brazilian Identity – Na\u2019ilah Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Distinction, 2019-2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been looking for Africa all over the world, but forgot to look within me.<\/em><\/p> \u2015 Thabiso Monkoe<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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    2018 Urbanglass sculpture installation\u00a0titled Ra\u00edzes\u00a0(Roots), 2018 by artist Anna Parisi.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    N\u00e3o d\u00e1 para lutar contra o que n\u00e3o se pode dar nome. […] E, quando n\u00e3o se sabe de onde vem, \u00e9 mais f\u00e1cil ir para onde a m\u00e1scara diz que \u00e9 o seu lugar.<\/em><\/p>Djamila Ribeiro, Quem Tem Medo do Feminismo Negro?<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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    Abstract<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    When I was living in Florianopolis, Brazil last fall I had the opportunity to join a collective formed by black students at the state university. We discussed race very often. Some of them had opposing experiences of racial identity to me although we looked quite similar. They would sometimes reflect on their discovery of themselves as Black people upon entering university when I had understood myself as Black since childhood. We also often spoke about Brazil\u2019s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, who was still campaigning for the presidency at that time. He has publicly denounced the necessity for affirmative action based racial quotas, on multiple occasions. Most of the Black university students that I met were in school based on the same racial quotas whose significance their current president refutes. Racial quotas in Brazil came to fruition during Luiz Inacio (Lula) Da Silva\u2019s presidency in the 2000s along with his inaugural speech, that affirmed the existence of a Black socio-racial group in Brazil as well as the discrimination they endure. I wondered what the impact of a president with views like Bolsonaro might be on the continuation of progress within the Black Brazilian population. I felt that I could truly appreciate the reality of their existence during Bolsonaro\u2019s presidency if I could comprehend more about Black identity in Brazil; I wanted to explore some of the sentiments that had been shared with me at the university. I had never heard anyone express a process of discovering racial identity upon adulthood, prompting me to want to learn about the process of affirming Black identity in Brazil. In this paper I will explore my findings on the process of affirming Black Brazilian identity through the analysis of interviews I conducted with nine Black Brazilian women. The paper will go further to explore the liberating quality of affirming Black identity in Brazil.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Distinction, 2019-2020 I’ve been looking for Africa all over the world, but forgot to look within me. \u2015 Thabiso Monkoe N\u00e3o d\u00e1 para lutar contra o que n\u00e3o se pode…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pawx0u-Ks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2880\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}