Affirming Blackness in a “Colorblind” Anti-Black Nation: How Brazilians Negotiate Police Killings of Afro-Brazilians

IF 1.8 2区 社会学 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI:10.1177/23326492241267220
Demetrius Miles Murphy
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The historically dominant ideology, racial ambiguity, has structured Brazilian beliefs, opinions, and worldviews. Its antithesis, racial affirmation, has gained wider acceptance on a national scale due to Brazil’s Black movement and affirmative action policies. Which racial ideology do Brazilians employ within the context of police killings of Afro-Brazilians? Do Brazilians emphasize racial stories and ethnoracial categories of ambiguity or affirmation? I use computational text analysis and qualitative interpretation of Twitter data in Portuguese from 2019 to 2021 to analyze five prominent Brazilian cases of racial violence—Pedro Gonzaga, Ágatha Félix, João Pedro, João Alberto, and Kathlen Romeu. These cases create opportunities to examine the contours and tensions of Brazilian racial ideologies on social media. Across the five cases, I find Brazilians primarily use the ethnoracial category negro and foreground stories of racial affirmation. These racial stories align with the frames and identities the Black movement has struggled to promote for generations. In contrast to earlier scholarship that notes the ineffectiveness of the Black movement in Brazil to create a mass movement or a popular negro identity, I find the Black movement’s framing and ethnoracial category resonate with urban Brazilian Twitter users.
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在一个 "不分肤色 "的反黑人国家中肯定黑人身份:巴西人如何处理警察杀害非裔巴西人的事件
历史上占主导地位的意识形态--种族模糊性--构建了巴西人的信仰、观点和世界观。其对立面种族平权则由于巴西的黑人运动和平权行动政策而在全国范围内获得了更广泛的接受。在警察杀害非裔巴西人的背景下,巴西人采用了哪种种族意识形态?巴西人是强调种族故事和人种类别的模糊性还是肯定性?我使用计算文本分析和对2019年至2021年葡萄牙语推特数据的定性解读,分析了巴西五起著名的种族暴力案件--佩德罗-贡萨加、阿加莎-费利克斯、若昂-佩德罗、若昂-阿尔贝托和凯瑟琳-罗梅乌。这些案例为研究巴西社交媒体上种族意识形态的轮廓和紧张关系提供了机会。在这五个案例中,我发现巴西人主要使用 "黑人 "这一种族类别,并将种族肯定的故事放在首位。这些种族故事与黑人运动几代人努力推广的框架和身份相吻合。早先有学者指出巴西黑人运动未能有效地形成群众运动或流行的黑人身份,与此不同的是,我发现黑人运动的框架和人种类别与巴西城市推特用户产生了共鸣。
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