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| Author(s): |
Márcio Henrique Casimiro Lopes Silva Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2016-03-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Josué Pereira da Silva;
Paulo Sérgio da Costa Neves;
Jair Batista da Silva;
Fernando Antonio Lourenço;
Mário Augusto Medeiros da Silva
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| Advisor: | Josué Pereira da Silva |
| Abstract | |
This research discusses the strategies of political struggles undertaken by the anti-racist movement in general and the Movimento Negro Unificado (MNU) in particular. Initially, I focus on the viewpoints of two major groups involved in the formation of MNU, and later on the conflict extended from this relationship. To do this, I take as my backdrop the contemporary debates related to the theories of recognition. My sources to achieve the study were mainly the black press, the mainstream media and MNU documents, like congress resolutions and action plans. Among the results presented, one that called my attention is the complex relationship between the struggles for recognition and redistribution as operated by one of the main groups that gave rise to the MNU, Afro-Latin-America. Such struggles were translated as political strategies and discourses gathered under the denomination of identity and socialism, demonstrating a dense relationship between economics, politics and culture whose representation was hampered by analyses and concepts derived from the movement itself and from the academy who sought to distinguish, situate and classify in fragmentary way these struggles to assert its specificity. At the same time that omitted the dynamics of social processes involved. The strategy of identity affirmation, understood and developed by the idea of blackness as the main way the movement found to assimilate the changes in traditional forms of political struggle from the second half of the twentieth century, carried one of the main possibilities for the development of an essentialist conception of identity. This has largely been responsible for a long lasting process of disarticulation between the struggles for recognition and redistribution. Finally, this process led part of the anti-racist struggles to circumscribe the horizons of their struggle to aspirations for full citizenship, dating back to the thesis of the failure of those categories in addressing anti-racist struggles (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/05807-7 - Struggles for recognition or struggles for redistribution? The MNU and the dilemmas of anti-racism in contemporary Brazil |
| Grantee: | Márcio Henrique Casimiro Lopes Silva Santos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |