Um deboche autoetnográfico: uma análise sobre redes de transição capilar em Viçosa-AL

Abstract

In this master's thesis, I search to understand the social phenomenon of hair transition among black women, in the scenario on the city of Viçosa – Al. However, describing these processes was like analyzing my own life trajectory as a black woman, from Viçosa, who went through this movement of stopping chemical straightening \ relaxations and taking on curly hair, becoming a transitioned woman. One of the most important challenges presented in this research was not to go down on aspects of my life trajectory, but to seek to develop a narrative facing the challenges and dilemmas while performing an autoethnographical methodology so that the descriptions don’t concentrate just in my life. As the way to resolve theses anxieties, I used the self-definition of Black feminism as a research method that contributed to delimit and understand my process, inserting with the narratives of the interlocutors. Describe my life as a starting point, entering my childhood, through my viewer gaze who dealing with stereotyped imagens of Black women on Brazilian television, dreaming of being a Globeleza or Bahian pagode dancer. I go through my childhood to reach the phenomenon of hair transition into adulthood. To investigate this social phenomenon, I use the category of network, to investigate its initial manifestation on social media and how it gets into the daily lives if Black women, searching to understand the process of interaction among Black women transitioned in this city.