Ra Ximhai (Dec 2018)
DIFFERENT RACISMS. MEETINGS WITH AFRO-BRAZILIAN AND AFRO-MEXICAN GIRLS AND BOYS. DESCOLONIZING CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES
Abstract
The objective of this work is to generate a methodological procedure for the analytical problematization of the implications of the knowledge of the relationship between childhood and racism in the field of childhood studies in Latin America, many of which reveal processes of discrimination originating Due to the migratory conditions of indigenous families, however, there is an absence of similar studies in childhood in African-American families. Based on the foregoing, the repercussions on the ground of decolonial thinking and the explicit incorporation of the definitions of race, racism, discrimination and racialization in research are analyzed here, recognizing the contributions of the current Afro-Colombian and Afro-Ecuadorian pedagogical movement; an approach to these concepts, including the perspective on intersectionality. Their own categories are constructed and recreated in order to approximate and problematize two related cases in two distant geographies. The first refers to an Afro-Mexican community in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, where it is characterized by the "tool box" and the argumentative threads constructed throughout the text, a form of discrimination defined as: "latent racism" ", Whose processes of racialization produce invisibility in some moments, while in others there is colonial silencing and denial, by not recognizing historicity and naturalizing differences, as expressed in the phrase:"... it is a town of dark ones ". The second case occurs in the Afro-Brazilian context, particularly in a quilombola community, in the Mata Mineira area, belonging to the municipality of Bias Fortes-Minas Gerais, Brazil. The study of this town allows us to understand more open forms of discrimination, exclusion and racism, where paradoxically the otherness is visible to create a process of invisibility, that is, a "recognition" without recognition of racist discrimination. To conclude, through the methodological procedure of the problematization, new questions are elaborated and new challenges are posed in the field of research of this political, historical, cultural and social intersection of the relationships between childhoods and their ethnic conditions ("marks of racism"), Gender and class.
