Banca de DEFESA: ELIZABETH CAROLINE DE SOUZA

"DENAGRIE” TO DECOLONISE: AN ANALYSIS DECOLONIAL OF THE 21st CENTURY BLACK BRAZILIAN PRESS IN TIMES OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Black press. Decoloniality. Racism. Pandemic. COVID-19.

The present research seeks to understand the decolonial perspective of the black Brazilian press of the 21st century and how this characteristic has collaborated with the anti-racist struggle in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. For complete understanding, the work of studies of decolonial authors will be addressed, such as Maldonado-Torres (2020), Dennis de Oliveira (2021), Lélia Gonzalez (2020), Grada Kilomba (2019), Anibal
Quijano (2005), Kabengele Munanga (2020), relevant contributions through his field analysis theories. Furthermore, with the content analysis methodology, the work analyzes the potential and decolonial content of the black press, having as research object the ebook “Affirmative Narratives in times of pandemic”, the result of the Lab Afirmativa de Jornalismo project – Respect the Favela! – first experience in an anti-racist journalism laboratory in Brazil. From this work, we intend to detect the points that converge with the decolonial studies, seeking to verify the hypothesis that the black woman presents herself as an essential tool to combat racism, a “keystone” of the coloniality process, as Quijano (2005) emphasizes. To this end, we will also focus on Brazil, which since the 19th century has been at the front in search of paths that guarantee the well-being of the black population, and how this struggle fought over centuries ago still drives the work developed by the black
people in the 21st century.