Translating ideas: Black Sociology and the anti-racist intellectual mobilization between the United States and Brazil (1970s)

Throughout the 1970s, in the context of the formation of the contemporary Black Movement in Brazil, a significant transit of Black intellectuals and anti-racist social activists took place between the United States and Brazil. Based on a transnational perspective, we discuss the relations establishe...

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Autor: Trapp, Rafael Petry
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Esboços (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/83974
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/esbocos/article/view/83974
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Black Sociology
Raça
História afro-brasileira
Race
Afro-Brazilian History
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Sumario:Throughout the 1970s, in the context of the formation of the contemporary Black Movement in Brazil, a significant transit of Black intellectuals and anti-racist social activists took place between the United States and Brazil. Based on a transnational perspective, we discuss the relations established in this field between the Brazilian sociologist Eduardo de Oliveira e Oliveira and African American Black Sociology in mid-1970s. Black Sociology proposed a theoretical approach politically committed and organically connected to the lives and political aspirations of African-Americans, aiming to reposition the voices and centralize the epistemologies of Black authors not as objects, as White Sociology did, but as subjects. We argue that Oliveira translated (in academic events, articles, and institutional projects) this references for Brazil into a proposal of a Sociologia Negra that would be a theoretical instrument for social liberation and the creation of new epistemological references for Afro-Brazilians, a process that helped to build the intellectual foundations of contemporary Black political struggles in Brazil.