Afrofuturismo na encruzilhada: usos e sentidos de tecnologias ancestrais diaspóricas

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Laila Souza de
• Orientador(a): Marcon, Frank Nilton
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Antropologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Antropologia; Negros - identidade racial; Etnologia; Relações raciais; Afrocentrismo; Afrofuturismo; Encruzilhadas; Ancestralidade; Diásporas africanas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Afrofuturism; Crossroads; Ancestry; African diasporas
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/18770

This dissertation text translates into understanding what Afrofuturism is and how the theme reflects on the presence of black people in space/time, from its historical evolution in a global context to current developments in Brazil, in addition to answering whether we can consider the theme as a pillar that solidifies identity processes. The general objective is to investigate this artistic, philosophical, cultural and political movement developed from a language articulated by, for, with and among black people who are protagonists of their own history. In this way, the topic in focus falls within an exploratory context of the Afrofuturist concept, making it necessary to answer some questions, such as: what is Afrofuturism? What are the difficulties imposed by race that also affect the Afrofuturist movement? Can the Afrofuturist movement be considered a form of identity? What are the main nuances and characteristics of this movement? Using participant observation from an ethnographic perspective and autoethnography as an applied methodology, in addition to a bibliographic review in which concepts outlined by scholars who dedicated themselves to understanding different ways of doing research were related, with a main focus on Intersectionality, Decoloniality and Afrocentricity. Furthermore, the Afrofuturist movement goes far beyond the aesthetic factor based on a Western composition of what is understood by the future and mainly merges into the confluence of elements that underlies the existence of the body that is carrying out the exercise of prospecting for the future, based on essentiality of Afrocentered thinking in its most comprehensive aspect, as the ancestral future will only truly arrive if exercised jointly with several subjects, preferably with the entire African diaspora that was formed from the transatlantic experience of reinventing oneself.