Observando a Palmitagem?: percepções de relacionamentos inter-raciais entre membros de um grupo afrocentrado do Facebook

Abstract

The present study is about the interracial relationships. The objective is to explore the appreciation of these relationship by black people, and their relationship with contemporary forms of valuing blackness. Methodologically, a dialogue is carried out between theorical productions empirical research that brings reflections about the families formation and interracial couples and datas obtained through the observation of the afrocentric Facebook group. The material collected in the field, reveals the a depreciaton of the interacial relations with people of the virtual researched group. The analyze serch to contextualize the use of the word “palmitagem” from the different references that have been shared in their interaction dynamics such as the criticism of the notion of racial democracy and the emergence of problematization of the loneliness and black woman.