A recepção de Antenor Firmin no Brasil: uma autoetnografia da encruzilhada epistêmica

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Troitinho, Bruna Ribeiro
• Orientador(a): Mocellin, Maria Clara
• Banca de defesa: Joseph, Handerson, Zanini, Maria Catarina Chitolina, Dutra, Maria Rita Py, Marconatto, Pamela Marques
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; Centro de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Sociologia
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Anténor Firmin; Autoetnografia; Intelectuais haitianos; Decolonialidade; Pensamento feminista negro
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Autoethnography; Haitian intellectuals; Decoloniality; Black feminist thought
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/30342

The theme of this thesis is the arrival of Anténor Firmin's thought in Brazil in the 21st century. Anténor Firmin is a nineteenth century Haitian theorist who challenged racialist theories by proposing the thesis of the equality of human races. He was part of a tradition of Haitian intellectuals - the "Atlantic Haitian Humanism" - who wrote denouncing colonialism and racism in the middle of the nineteenth century. The question that guides this thesis is "What conditions explain the recent and unprecedented reception of Anténor Firmin's thought in Brazil?" To answer it, I used a multi-method approach, whose central methodology was autoethnography. I analyze the relations between knowledge and power to explain this unprecedented arrival of Anténor Firmin from my experience as a black student in academia. I use lived experience according to the proposals of a Black feminist autoethnography. The answers to the central question are: 1) the policies of affirmative action - quotas for black students, admission of Haitian migrants and admission of black professors - are essential conditions for the reception of Anténor Firmin's thought in Brazil; 2) the routes of propagation of Anténor Firmin's thought are collectivized, that is, they are routes organized by black students in a movement of recovery of several authors. Thus, the encounter with Firmin's work happens collectively with works by Zora Neale Hurtson, Lélia Gonzalez, and other black intellectuals. During the research I realized that the "recreative anti-racist epistemology" can be an obstacle to the propagation of Anténor Firmin's thought in the Brazilian academy, marked by the whiteness paradigm. The general objective of the thesis is to understand the ways of reception and propagation of Anténor Firmin's thought in the Brazilian academy, marked by the presence of black students through the implementation of affirmative action policies. The specific objectives of this thesis are: 1) to describe and present Black feminist autoethnography as a research method; 2) to analyze power relations in the construction of knowledge; 3) to understand the trajectory of Anténor Firmin and his work The Equality of Human Races as a founder of the Social Sciences; 4) to present the epistemic crossroads of the Social Sciences based on my experience as a black student. The routes of arrival and propagation of Anténor Firmin's thought are: announcer routes - those that precede arrival; evident routes - academic discipline menus; austral routes - courses, lectures, classes not registered in menus and actions of black student movements.