A solidão dos corpos negros no espaço acadêmico

Abstract

Historically, we can say that anthropology is a discipline known for its interest in studies of so-called "marginalized" populations. In Brazil, it has been constituted by a large number of research studies that take into consideration indigenous, black, peripheral, and peasant populations, among others. During practically the entire 20th century the main objective of researchers was to explain Brazil, analyzing the differences between the types of populations existing in the national culture. Different from other nationalities, Brazilian anthropology sought to study the country itself; the main interest was the formation of Brazilian society, taking into consideration the people who formed Brazil and how to constitute an idea of national identity with the existing population. Both the theories around the concept of inclusion of the black population in spaces of power and racist discourses (and their various modes of existence) find in the slave system and in aspects of cultural identity a point of convergence. It is in this intertwining that we can point out the proximities of historical contexts with the applicability of actions that today make possible the presence of black people in environments of power, such as academic spaces, for example.

It is not known today that the quota system has given Brazilian society a rich and great debate around the projects developed about the country's identity. This discussion has historically gone through several "levels" until it reached the present day, and it is possible to find elements that diverge from and bring these debates closer to racialist perspectives, bearing in mind that access to higher education institutions has not meant the inclusion of blacks in its entirety. According to the Program to Combat Institutional Racism - PCRI, institutional racism "happens when institutions and organizations fail to provide a professional and adequate service to people because of their color, culture, racial or ethnic origin. Among its many forms of manifestations, racism reveals itself through norms, practices, and behaviors adopted in the daily life of institutions and produces devastating effects on those who receive it. Thinking about social/cultural infrastructures and the impacts of theoretical productions on the ways societies organize and interact is perhaps the great challenge for intellectuals, and, why not say, for anthropologists themselves. However, what is there in common between the system that places black people in a situation of loneliness and the spaces of intellectuality.

The short film seeks to promote a debate about the solitude of black bodies in the academic universe. The narrative points to the various ways imbricated by the system to establish racism, and how the infrastructure of this space, whether through colonial or subjective molds, subordinates the intellectual and political black body, in such a way as not to embrace it in its entirety. In this way, the plot was structured with dialogues, reports of theoretical black bodies, as well as fictional scenes that portray black life at the university. The production of the short documentary arises then having the image as an important communication tool in the field of visual anthropology, in the imaginary that can sharpen and in the senses and reflections that may exist regarding the dimension of infrastructure and affection in black theoretical bodies.