A presente dissertação estuda as dinâmicas de construção da identidade da comunidade Cantão das Lombas situada na zona rural de Viamão no Rio Grande do Sul, através da reflexão teórica e a aplicação de diversas técnicas do estudo etnográfico que evidenciaram as ligações entre o processo de construção identitária dos quilombolas e diferentes dinâmicas históricas e culturais onde o racialismo e/ou racialização continuam enchendo de significados as cores de pele dos atores sociais. Assim, discutindo aspectos teórico conceituais da “raça” e o racismo e apoiado na experiência etnográfica, o presente texto pretende dar resposta ao seguinte questionamento, como as percepções das características fenotípicas, especificamente as relacionadas com a pigmentação da pele, interferem nas formas em que os quilombolas do Cantão das Lombas se identificam e são identificados contemporaneamente em seu contexto rural? / This dissertation studies the identity building dynamics in the community Cantão das Lombas located in rural Viamão in Rio Grande do Sul, through theoretical reflection and the implementation of several techniques of ethnographic study that showed the links between the construction process identity by the quilombolas and different historical and cultural dynamics where racialism and / or racialization continue filling meanings skin colors of the social actors. Thus, discussing conceptual theoretical aspects of "race" and racism and supported the ethnographic experience, this paper aims to answer the following question, how perceptions of phenotypic characteristics, specifically those related to skin pigmentation, interfere in the ways that inhabitants of the Cantão das Lombas are identified contemporaneously in its rural context?

The novel shows how a young Indo-Guyanese immigrant to the UK is racialized; aspiring to leave behind the "messiness" and confusion of the poverty-stricken immigrant lives he sees around him, he goes to Cambridge. The story is narrated by this character long after, in ways that reveal how this aspiration was assimilative and colonizing, encouraging him to abandon his friends and his roots. His life story makes it clear how different systems of racial categorization work in Guyana and in the UK to violently separate those who might be friends, lovers, and allies.

This thesis examines the experiences and interpretations of place of immigrant women in Kingston and Peterborough, Ontario. Immigrant women in smaller Canadian cities contend with a varied and unique set of circumstances that are specific to their geographic positioning. Kingston and Peterborough, with populations of under 150,000 residents, are cities with particular racial discourses. Racialized discourses in Kingston and Peterborough identify each of these places as white cities. As a result, racialized inhabitants who reside in these cities are subsequently rendered invisible or out of place. Participants of my research, most of whom are racialized visible minorities, have all had to contend with oppressive effects of negotiating a white, and oftentimes unwelcoming landscape. There are three main objectives to my research. First, my desire was to learn about immigrant women’s lived realities and to better understand how the experience of migration and racialization had affected their lives. Second, I wanted to facilitate opportunities for women to share their stories with each other in the hopes of perhaps creating the types of learning experiences that would empower participants. Facilitating social interactions in which women could voice their experiences and share their emotional geographies became the most meaningful aspect of this research project at the level of the individual. Finally, I wanted our collaborative research experience to reach the wider public with the intention of creating transformative social change. The voices of immigrant women in smaller cities are often ignored or overlooked, and this gap in knowledge, I believed, was in need of exploring. Previous studies with immigrant women have focused primarily on immigrant women who live in larger Canadian cities. Little research has been directed at smaller cities such as Kingston and Peterborough and my thesis seeks to begin to remedy this oversight. / Thesis (Master, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2008-11-24 16:07:56.728

A presente dissertação estuda as dinâmicas de construção da identidade da comunidade Cantão das Lombas situada na zona rural de Viamão no Rio Grande do Sul, através da reflexão teórica e a aplicação de diversas técnicas do estudo etnográfico que evidenciaram as ligações entre o processo de construção identitária dos quilombolas e diferentes dinâmicas históricas e culturais onde o racialismo e/ou racialização continuam enchendo de significados as cores de pele dos atores sociais. Assim, discutindo aspectos teórico conceituais da “raça” e o racismo e apoiado na experiência etnográfica, o presente texto pretende dar resposta ao seguinte questionamento, como as percepções das características fenotípicas, especificamente as relacionadas com a pigmentação da pele, interferem nas formas em que os quilombolas do Cantão das Lombas se identificam e são identificados contemporaneamente em seu contexto rural? / This dissertation studies the identity building dynamics in the community Cantão das Lombas located in rural Viamão in Rio Grande do Sul, through theoretical reflection and the implementation of several techniques of ethnographic study that showed the links between the construction process identity by the quilombolas and different historical and cultural dynamics where racialism and / or racialization continue filling meanings skin colors of the social actors. Thus, discussing conceptual theoretical aspects of "race" and racism and supported the ethnographic experience, this paper aims to answer the following question, how perceptions of phenotypic characteristics, specifically those related to skin pigmentation, interfere in the ways that inhabitants of the Cantão das Lombas are identified contemporaneously in its rural context?

A presente dissertação estuda as dinâmicas de construção da identidade da comunidade Cantão das Lombas situada na zona rural de Viamão no Rio Grande do Sul, através da reflexão teórica e a aplicação de diversas técnicas do estudo etnográfico que evidenciaram as ligações entre o processo de construção identitária dos quilombolas e diferentes dinâmicas históricas e culturais onde o racialismo e/ou racialização continuam enchendo de significados as cores de pele dos atores sociais. Assim, discutindo aspectos teórico conceituais da “raça” e o racismo e apoiado na experiência etnográfica, o presente texto pretende dar resposta ao seguinte questionamento, como as percepções das características fenotípicas, especificamente as relacionadas com a pigmentação da pele, interferem nas formas em que os quilombolas do Cantão das Lombas se identificam e são identificados contemporaneamente em seu contexto rural? / This dissertation studies the identity building dynamics in the community Cantão das Lombas located in rural Viamão in Rio Grande do Sul, through theoretical reflection and the implementation of several techniques of ethnographic study that showed the links between the construction process identity by the quilombolas and different historical and cultural dynamics where racialism and / or racialization continue filling meanings skin colors of the social actors. Thus, discussing conceptual theoretical aspects of "race" and racism and supported the ethnographic experience, this paper aims to answer the following question, how perceptions of phenotypic characteristics, specifically those related to skin pigmentation, interfere in the ways that inhabitants of the Cantão das Lombas are identified contemporaneously in its rural context?