A atuação digital de mulheres negras de Belém (PA) e o lugar da branquitude crítica

Abstract

This research analyzes the place of critical whiteness (CARDOSO, 2010), represented by white followers who repudiate racism in digital environments, in relation to performance of black women from Belém, represented by activists and producers of digital content. The theoretical framework encompasses different concepts, and theoretical disciplines, organized here in three dimensions: (1) the intersectional approach, comprising Race, Gender and Class, based on the thinking of the authors Cida Bento (2022), Edith Piza (2002), Lia Vainer Schucman (2020), Liv Sovik (2009), Ruth Frankenberg (2004), Zélia Amador de Deus (2008), Cardoso (2010; 2014), and Deivison Campos (2023); (2) that of the communicational gaze, through the lens of interactional processes and mediatization, based on the studies of the authors José Luiz Braga (2017), with interactional devices and the process of mediatization; and Axel Honneth's (2003) and Rousiley Maia (2018) with theory of recognition, used to focus on the behavior of black digital activists and content producers, covering the aspects of intersubjectivity with communication, as well as to understand how the patterns of intersubjectivity occur in the individual and collective relational process of the subjects of this research; and (3) Digital Colonialism, based on Deivison Faustino (2023) and Walter Lippold (2023) to reflect on the dynamics of communication relations in digital environments.The methodological design is that of a qualitative empirical research that connects with the theoretical foundations of this dissertation, which is based on an interactional, relational and situational conception of communication (FRANÇA, 2022). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight women, two of whom were black digital activists and two black digital content producers, and four followers racialized as white. From this path, it is possible to highlight that the place of critical whiteness has a secondary role, of public support against racism only in the digital environment, but little effective in terms of practical and daily attitudes in the face-to-face to combat whiteness and racism.