Conversas incendiárias com acadêmicas brancas sobre antirracismo cordial em suas práticas, pactos e discursos

Abstract

This dissertation is driven by nonconformity, fury and the desire to dismantle academic whiteness. It is driven by the dream of broadening science and making it home to black, indigenous and quilombola bodies. This research aims to establish an incendiary conversation with white academics about cordial anti-racism, analyzing how white academics conduces cordial anti-racism in their institutional practices, the mechanisms that support their discourses and trace the practices and strategies used by the whiteness to sustain it. Based on black feminisms and anti-colonial knowledge, we focus our attention on the experiences of political bodies in academia, seeking to learn about their histories, journeys, practices and the materialities of their experiences in relation to whiteness. As methodological guides, I use whisper networks and autobiographical narratives, analyzed in interweaving with transmethodology and the call for diseducation. The stories accessed in the whisper networks are connected to the autobiographical narratives, announcing another perspective on the world, including the politics of knowledge, ways of producing, teaching and learning in a non-cordial way. At the end of this work, it can be seen that the cordial anti-racism of white academics produces forms of control and colonization of black bodies, whether through affection or the commercialization of inclusion. As a result of a face-to-face conversation with academic whiteness, I give you writings that revisit the potential of collective doing, highlighting the power of orality through networks of whispers and the manualities of those who inhabit the university with their whole bodies. A scorched, incendiary and healing work.