This thesis aims to demonstrate how the processes of gentrification and displacement are interrelated processes that invent new ways of perpetuating anti- blackness in the U.S. I demonstrate this through an engagement with Christina Sharpe’s (2016) analysis of the imagery of the wake, the ship, the hold, and the weather as axis points that position Black life in the afterlife of slavery—how the conditions of slavery are ongoing today—presenting the racist encounters at Lake Merritt as illustrative examples. In her most recent book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Sharpe (2016) deploys an interdisciplinary approach to critically theorize Black subjection and grief through a Black feminist framework, offering care, or what she terms “wake work” as an anecdote to state-sanctioned anti-black violence. She turns to poetry, film, historical archives, and intimate personal experiences to thoroughly articulate how the past is not passed; I reveal how capitalist logic simultaneously structures media representations of Black people in ways that distort what we signify— monstrosity, threat, and criminal are three examples of this distortion—and fix abstract space in hegemonic spatial imaginaries through privatization and commodification. Most importantly, I turn to art and expression—prominent examples being “BBQ’N While Black” and "The Black Spatial Imaginary" as a community response to BBQ Becky and serial displacement in Portland, Oregon respectively—as resistance and examples of place-making practices that Black people have been engaged in historically to articulate their self-hood, belonging, and beauty through Black love. I strive to undertake this work with intentionality and care, which necessitates an undisciplined approach as academic disciplines have historically deployed methodologies that construct narratives on Blackness that reproduce colonial and anti-black violence.

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and Keywords "In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself." - Frantz Fanon In this thesis, one of my first aims, among others, is to discuss and put in perspective the different levels of identification that can coexist and contribute to the creation of a person. I want to understand the impact and the role played by the city in one's identity-building process by studying the self-perception of visibly black people in Prague and Paris. Why did I decide to work on blackness within the European context? I decided to work on blackness for many reasons, one being that blackness as much as whiteness are social constructs. However, when whiteness has a history of multiplicity, and white people are being granted individuality, blackness, on the other hand, is often seen as an encompassing term. Black people are perceived as a monolithic social group in every sense of the word, sharing the same history and past across the globe. It is because of the peculiarity of blackness, which is seen as a factor of global identity that I wanted to study that topic within Europe. Working on blackness in Europe is working on a topic that would look like an oxymoron. Indeed, Europe is associated with whiteness, and blackness is associated with Africa. Therefore, thinking about black Europeans or...

and Keywords "In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself." - Frantz Fanon In this thesis, one of my first aims, among others, is to discuss and put in perspective the different levels of identification that can coexist and contribute to the creation of a person. I want to understand the impact and the role played by the city in one's identity-building process by studying the self-perception of visibly black people in Prague and Paris. Why did I decide to work on blackness within the European context? I decided to work on blackness for many reasons, one being that blackness as much as whiteness are social constructs. However, when whiteness has a history of multiplicity, and white people are being granted individuality, blackness, on the other hand, is often seen as an encompassing term. Black people are perceived as a monolithic social group in every sense of the word, sharing the same history and past across the globe. It is because of the peculiarity of blackness, which is seen as a factor of global identity that I wanted to study that topic within Europe. Working on blackness in Europe is working on a topic that would look like an oxymoron. Indeed, Europe is associated with whiteness, and blackness is associated with Africa. Therefore, thinking about black Europeans or...

The aim of this study is to explore the perception and experience of treatment and inclusion that Afroswedish parents have of the Swedish preschool. There are a few similar studies on the subject, but they are either coming in from another perspective or are focused on the theoretical aspect of the matter.  The study has been performed through semi structured, qualitative interviews with seven caregivers with an afroswedish background, who have children in the Swedish preschool, or that just have finished it. Throughout the study we have been using a phenomenographic method among an intercultural theory and Foucault’s theory to analyse and understand how different factors are associated and interact with each other, and how they affect the intercultural encounter. The study shows that their experiences vary depending on numerous factors. One of the most significant is that the individual preschools work for inclusion and diversity is dependent for the parent’s perceptions of the preschool and the pedagogues. The experiences of how the pedagogues treat and talk with the parents and the children are also important for the overall impression of the preschools. The study points out the awareness among the preschool staff and their approach to the matter of diversity as the main important factor for equal treatment and inlcusion.

Jade Montserrat ist eine britische Performerin und bildende Künstlerin, die sich im Rahmen ihres künstlerischen PhD mit Josephine Bakers Performances auseinandersetzt. Sie performt geloopte Choreographien, die aus überlieferten Aufzeichnungen von Baker abgeleitet sind und setzt sich auch in Zeichnungen und Installationen mit Baker auseinander. Der Beitrag verortet diese Arbeiten in den Debatten von Performance und Blackness und beschreibt Montserrats Performanceverfahren selbst als Forschungsmethode. Daraus leiten sich neue Formen der Archivierung und Auseinandersetzung mit Performance-Geschichte ab.

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Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-05-15T11:36:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Viviane Inês Weschenfelder_.pdf: 3054064 bytes, checksum: abe2815c770b90c4735f29c00503acb8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-15T11:36:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Viviane Inês Weschenfelder_.pdf: 3054064 bytes, checksum: abe2815c770b90c4735f29c00503acb8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta Tese teve como problemática central compreender como se engendram os processos de subjetivação dos sujeitos que se reconhecem como negros no Brasil contemporâneo e de que modos estas subjetividades contribuem para pensar a educação das relações étnico-raciais. A pesquisa teve como inspiração a perspectiva pós-estruturalista, articulando-se a partir do campo dos Estudos Foucaultianos, das Relações Raciais e da Educação. O fortalecimento da negritude brasileira, evidenciada a partir de 1970, permitiu que ela fosse entendida como uma matriz de experiência, com base no esquema analítico de Foucault. A matriz de experiência da negritude é composta por três eixos: o eixo dos saberes que funcionam como verdades, dos poderes que governam a população negra e o eixo da subjetivação/ética, que permite que os sujeitos negros governem a si mesmos a partir da relação com as verdades da negritude, consigo e com os outros. Para compreender o eixo da subjetivação, foram analisadas 36 narrativas autobiográficas produzidas e publicadas por mulheres negras no blog Blogueiras Negras, entre os anos de 2013 a 2016. Nesta pesquisa, as noções de discurso e de escrita de si operaram como ferramentas teórico-metodológicas. O Blogueiras Negras funciona como um potente espaço educativo, tanto pelo governamento dos modos de constituir-se mulher negra, quanto por acionar a aprendizagem permanente dos sujeitos que estão em contato com o blog, incluindo a gestão dos afetos e a luta contra a discriminação racial. Além da descrição e da análise do processo de subjetivação identitário e do ressentimento racial, escola e docência foram problematizadas a partir das narrativas selecionadas, o que permitiu pensar sobre a Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais. Deste modo, defende-se a tese de que o processo de subjetivação identitário, vivenciado pelos sujeitos que fazem parte da matriz de experiência da negritude, tem como um dos seus principais efeitos a expressão do ressentimento racial. O ressentimento coloca as relações raciais em tensionamento e pode ser canalizado para a luta política e a transformação ética. Na medida em que a docência for constituída pelo compromisso com uma educação antirracista e pelas dimensões ética, estética e política, a escola pode vir a desenvolver processos de in/exclusão menos violentos e relações raciais que resultem, sobretudo, em subjetividades singulares. / The main goal of this Dissertation was to understand how the processes of subjectivation of the subjects whose recognize themselves as Black are produced in contemporary Brazil and how these subjectivities help us to problematize the Multicultural Education. The research relies on post-structuralism perspective, articulating Foucaultian Studies, Racial Relations studies, and the Education field. The strengthening of Brazilian blackness, evidenced since the 1970s, allowed blackness to be understood as a matrix of experience, based on Foucault’s theoretical framework. The blackness’ matrix of experience is composed of three axes: the axis of knowledge that works as truths, the axis of power that governs the Black population, and the axis of subjectivation/ethic, allowing Black subjects to control themselves since the relationship with self, with the blackness’ truths and with others. In order to understand the axis of subjectivation, 36 autobiographical narratives produced and published by Black women in the Blogueiras Negras’ blog, between 2013 and 2016 year, were analyzed. Furthermore, the notions of discourse and self-writing are used as theoretical and methodological tools. Blogueiras Negras works as a strong educative place, because the ways of government to become Black women, as well as to activate the permanent learning of these subjects that are in contact with the blog, including the management of the feelings and the struggle against the racial discrimination. Beyond the description and the analysis of process of identity subjectivation and racial ressentiment, school and teaching were problematized from the selected narratives, what made possible to think about Multicultural Education. Thus, the thesis put forward that the process of identity subjectivation, experienced by the subjects that are part of blackness’ matrix of experience, has as one of the main effects the expression of racial ressentiment. The ressentiment put the racial relations in tension and those feelings may be redirected to the political struggle and the ethical transformation. Insofar as teaching will be constituted by the commitment with an antiracist education and by its ethic, aesthetic and political dimensions, the school could develop fewer violent processes of in/exclusion and racial relations that result, above all, in singular subjectivities.

Submitted by William Justo Figueiro (williamjf) on 2015-07-21T22:53:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 65c.pdf: 622449 bytes, checksum: 20ae11b2c0d29b4d8015140ea571cbb7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-21T22:53:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 65c.pdf: 622449 bytes, checksum: 20ae11b2c0d29b4d8015140ea571cbb7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-25 / Nenhuma / Partindo do pressuposto de que todo negro é um ser arquiteto, a presente pesquisa busca evidenciar a possibilidade de identidades negras individuais - múltiplas noções de negritudes. A situação cromática e a conduta arquitetônica do indivíduo o leva a um olhar diferenciado e contemporâneo de identidade negra, onde a existência identitária individual negra não refuta a coletiva. Com acepções teóricas próprias e fundamentadas em autores como Guimarães (2003), Honneth (2003), Nogueira (1985), Simmel (1977), entre outros, dissertamos sobre a existência real e intensa da Ideologia de Africanidade e as múltiplas noções de negritudes, levando em consideração a atuação do preconceito de marca. A incursão empírica desenvolvida, de forma qualitativa, realizada em duas cidades mato-grossenses, utilizou como modalidade de pesquisa a observação participante, combinada a outras técnicas de pesquisa. A trajetória teórica e empírica possibilitou-nos obter resultados favoráveis sobre a existência das múltiplas noções de negritudes, que não simplifica a existência do negro ser arquiteto. / Assuming that all black is a human architect, this research seeks to demonstrate the possibility of individual black identities - multiple notions of blackness. The situation in color and architectural behavior of the individual to take it a different view, contemporary black identity, which gives individual identity, does not refute the black collective. With own meanings theoretical and based on authors such as Guimarães (2003), Honneth (2003), Nogueira (1985), Simmel (1977), among others, spoke about the real existence of intense and Ideology of African and multiple notions of blackness, taking into account the performance brand of prejudice. The incursion of thumb developed in a qualitative way, held in two cities in Mato Grosso, used as a form of participant observation research, combined with other research techniques. The theoretical and empirical trajectory allowed us to obtain favorable results on the existence of different definitions of blackness, which does not simplify the existence of black a human architect.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-10T17:33:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Eugênio de Leão Esteves.pdf: 1401588 bytes, checksum: b60594ec9276e2ba9bf9fb56f8959b8c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-10T17:33:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Eugênio de Leão Esteves.pdf: 1401588 bytes, checksum: b60594ec9276e2ba9bf9fb56f8959b8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-10 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The central purpose of this work is to make a reflection about the construct of the term miscegenation in the book Tent of Miracles (1969), written by Jorge Amado, and then find and cross multiple contributions intellectual, affective and empirical that may have influenced in the elaboration of the discourse evidenced in the literary text. So, the author's life is taken as research source. We understand his artistic elaboration as an esthetic experimentation that emerges from – and remits to – a specific social context that he lived. Also, we focus mainly on the concepts about miscegenation that emerge in the literary text itself, making Tent of Miracles our primordial source. Considering the multiple significances of the term miscegenation in historiography, we are focusing in its use on the literary object, taking into account the significances and concepts that this term has acquired in different times and places. We point the closer relation between the construct of miscegenation and literary representations of the city of Salvador in Tent. We analyses the microcosms of the city represented and its relation with the idea of miscegenation present in the text. The objective is to identify and understand, in the literary work, vestiges of possible overviews of historical conjunctures. Here, we understand literature like a possible document for historical research, taking into account the subjectivities present in an artistic document. Also, we think important to understand and discuss historical functions of Tent of Miracles – like pointed by Antonio Candido, who identifies this function in the literary structure, considering that this one has direct relations with author significances about the place where the literary piece is conceived, a relevant aspect, considering that the place that has inspired Amado was the same the novel is set in. We point out that Tent presents us refracted images of Jorge Amado’s living between black people, frequenting territories and having experiences in Salvador. This fact brings some elements that problematize the historiographic formulation about Amado like an author who exalted the miscegenation like a way of racial pacification. This research proposes to think about an author facet, analyzing it from his own creation, not looking for answers established of the history in the literature, or the opposite, but trying to find signs of feedback between history and literature – an approach that presents us to subjects, overviews, ruptures and historical continuities / Esta dissertação tem como proposta central refletir sobre o construto do termo mestiçagem na obra Tenda dos Milagres (1969), de Jorge Amado, e com isso descortinar e intercruzar as diversas contribuições intelectuais, afetivas e empíricas na elaboração de um discurso evidenciado em texto literário. Projetamos, assim, o autor como fonte da pesquisa, entendendo sua elaboração artística como um se lançar estético que – emerge de e remete a – um fazer social, ao tempo que focamos atenção no uso do termo mestiçagem no interior literário, nas tramas de seu texto, portanto, em Tenda dos Milagres como fonte primeira. Diante do valor polissêmico deste termo na historiografia, atentamos para a sua substância no interior do objeto literário, considerando os significados moldados do seu uso entre os variados sujeitos, tempos e lugares. Constata-se, portanto, a estreita relação deste construto discursivo com as representações associadas à cidade de Salvador na obra literária, bem como a função da cidade na condição de palco de vivência do autor, o que motiva a análise dos microcosmos construídos por essas representações na modelagem da ideia de mestiçagem no texto. Como em caminho contrário, pelo objeto artístico chegar ao autor, que mediou as estruturas entre o universal e o subjetivo, objetiva-se investigar os rastros que possam nos apontar panoramas de conjunturas históricas a partir da peça literária. Compreende-se, dessa forma, a literatura como documento possível a ser aferido na pesquisa histórica se abordado por uma metodologia que considere as subjetividades de um documento artístico. É imprescindível entender, sobretudo, as funções históricas as quais Tenda dos Milagres cumpre enquanto fonte de aferição para a historiografia – como aborda Antonio Candido, que identifica essa função na própria estrutura literária, a qual tem relação direta com as significações do autor sobre o lugar onde a obra foi gestada, observação que se reforça nesta fonte, uma vez que o lugar embrionário da obra é o mesmo que ambienta a trama ficcional. Destacamos que o romance nos apresentou imagens refratadas de uma vivência presente no interior da cultura negra baiana, em seus territórios e em suas práticas; e essa percepção traz elementos que problematizam, sem negar, a formulação historiográfica sobre Jorge Amado que o referencia como um autor que exaltou a mestiçagem como via de entendimentos raciais. A pesquisa se dá a repensar uma faceta do escritor através de sua própria criação, não procurando respostas cimentadas da história na literatura ou o contrário, mas encontrando indícios de retroalimentação entre estes campos, o que nos apresenta articulações entre sujeitos, panoramas, rupturas e continuidades históricas