Graduate Journal of Social Science

Articles

• Challenging Academic Debates on Womanhood: A Decolonial Approach to Caribbean and Latin American Identities

  Shirley Anne Tate

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  • pp. 10–16

• Weaving Brazilian Blackness in the United Kingdom: Nation, Race and Migration

  Katucha Bento

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    This paper aims to discuss the notion of Blackness by using the intersectionality of gender, race, nationality and migration as the key aspects of lived experiences of how Blackness is negotiated. I will present how the notion of racial democracy in Brazil is present in the racialisation process and construction of self-identification. Based on the conversations during my doctoral research, I will problematise the racialised identity of Diaspora in the United Kingdom in order to understand how Blackness can be negotiated and acquires particular meanings according to situated experiences. Weaving Blackness is a metaphor to understand discourses present in the building up of self-descriptions of racialised identities entangled with coloniality of power, resistance, and perceptions of the self in the practices/performances of the everyday. Vectors such as on indigeneity, national identity and migration form intersectionalities that are explored though epistemological lenses of Black Feminism and Decolonial Thought.

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  • pp. 17–36

• Affirmative Actions for Indigenous Peoples in Brazilian Universities and Ethnology Studies from a Dialogical Perspective: An Interview with Clarice Cohn

  Katucha Bento and James Beresford

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  • pp. 38–47

• Fat, Black, and Butch: The Use of Internet Nudes to Resist Racism and Practice ‘Erotic Therapy’

  Gabriela Loureiro

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    The cyberspace and its participatory culture are frequently seen as a potential place where marginalised groups could tell their stories the way they see (Hughes, 2012). Given that Black women deal with an interlocking system of oppressions, one Black feminist in Brazil is creating new ways to deal with such oppressions in the digital sphere through the Internet nude. Raquel, a Black Brazilian woman living in Brazil who is also lesbian and fat, posts her nude on social media as a political statement about body positivity and anti-racist aesthetics. Based on a discourse analysis of an interview with Raquel about what the nude means to her, a couple of questions are raised: What are the opportunities and the limitations offered by the cyberspace to subvert social norms? What does the online backlash that Raquel suffered tell us about how the Black female body is constructed in public media in Brazil? What does her continued desire to use nude photos tell us about the potential within this act of taking nude selfies?

    Keywords

    Black feminism, gender, cyberspace, embodiment, race

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  • pp. 48–68

• Nana Yaa Asantewaa

  Melz. (Melissa Owusu)

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  • pp. 69–73

• Open letter
  Decolonising Minds @Leeds

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  • pp. 74–77