Kabelu: um debate multimídia e transmídia sobre negritude a partir do cabelo afro

Abstract

For the black population, Afro hair means a lot: self-knowledge, reaffirmation, identity, resistance, struggle. And in Brazil, faced with a society built with racist practices, these aspects are even more evident, causing conflicts, personal and social tensions, especially for black women. In this context, the Kabelu multimedia and transmedia project explores three thematic spheres that involve the debate about wavy, curly and kinky hair: culture, identity and consumption. Through a website, as the main platform, the present work of course completion presents contents such as reports, timeline, tables, minidocumentary, quiz, chronicle and map, as well as other genres and media. In discussing blackness through hair, a journalistic immersion was also carried out in the city of Redenção, in the interior of Ceará, with African students from the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB). The idea was to discover how this relationship with the hair itself happens after coming to Brazil. The Kabelu also has two genuinely transmissive materials: a printed booklet of children's tales and an Instagram profile about capillary transition. In this way, it intends to foment the debate on the complexity of the subject, contributing to other researches that run the hair as an element of significant importance for the culture of the black people.