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.

摘要

本研究结合人类学和精神分析，探讨非洲裔巴西人反种族主义斗争中黑人身份的形成。利用萨尔瓦多黑人活动家的长期民族志田野调查数据和当前对社交媒体的观察，我们探讨了各种反种族主义斗争如何成为将个人身份组织成集体过程的话语微系统。除了将非洲裔巴西人的激进主义作为一种集体力量进行分析之外，重要的是要考虑黑人个体之间的差异。由于主体通过他人不断地体验自己，我们倾听嵌入社会领域的个人，以证明相同与差异之间的斗争是非洲裔巴西人反种族主义行动的核心。