Escrevivências coletivas: práticas de re-existências e trajetórias de vida de jovens negros(as) em periferias de Fortaleza

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to analyze practices of re-existence to racism that cross the life trajectories of young black people inserted in groups working in peripheral regions of Fortaleza. Our starting question is: how do young black people who are members of social groups and residents of the outskirts of Fortaleza articulate practices of re-existence against racism in their life trajectories? With regard to the specific objectives, it was formulated: to know narratives of the life trajectories of young black people who are part of social groups in the outskirts of Fortaleza; problematize with young people inserted in peripheral groups the expressions of racism in their trajectories; and discuss implications of participation in peripheral groups in the experiences of re-existence against racism that constitute the trajectories of black youth in Fortaleza. In this sense, we will start from dialogues with decolonial studies in interface with social psychology and studies on youth and resistance. For this, a methodological proposal of a qualitative approach will be used, guided by the perspective of inter(in)vention research. The research had as a field of investigation the life trajectories of the participants, from which we were also able to thematize the peripheral regions of the city, recognized by the high rates of lethal violence, but which have also been the locus of intense and collective formation social mobilizations against racism, in order to create conditions to denaturalize these subjects and territories as dangerous. The choice of participants was made among young black people - by self-declaration as brown, black or black -, from the outskirts of the city and of both sexes. The investigation procedures of this research involve narrative interviews under the ethos of cartography, the methodology of the encounter and inspired by the work of Grada Kilomba, on the life trajectories of young black people and their practices of re-existence against the phenomenon of racism, and a discussion group, in the form of a conversation circle, on the issue of racism, highlighting personal experiences and re-existing practices found. For data analysis, cartographic analysis is used, which means letting the various voices that make up the practices of re-existence to racism appear from the monitoring and intervention of the life trajectories of young black people. We will use fragments of the narratives as “analyzing scenes” to think about and problematize expressions of racism, the practices of resistance/reexistence and implications of participation in social groups in the life trajectories of our participants. Racism, in this sense, presents itself as a colonial-capitalist force whose effects speak of a resurgence in the forms of violence that blacks and nephros are treated. However, based on the collective productions, we highlight the practices of resistance, care, and similarities, forged in the relationship and encounter with the social collectives working at Titanzinho, in order to provide opportunities for the production of memory, ancestral rescue, care and other narratives about black and peripheral youth. Therefore, problematizing the practices, devices and institutions that maintain a colonial-capitalist logic of production of subjectivities from the trajectories that intersect in this work is shown to be an important task of decolonial research and in the production of other possible.