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Afro-Brazilians’ life experiences in Paris ethno-racial † identification and social recognition

New positioning, new negotiation

Bibliographic Data

ID12915770
AuthorsLenita Perrier (Center for Social Studies on African, American and Asian Worlds, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume10
Issue1
Pages35-46
Publication date2015-09-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17528631.2015.1085667
OpenAlexW2337167997
LanguageEN
References cited13

Afro-Brazilians’ life experiences in Paris are manifold. This paper examines the intercultural dynamic within the transnational European and French contexts and explores how nonwhite Brazilians negotiate their socio-racial relations and their strategies of integration and socialization. This piece draws from our fieldwork and semi-directive interviews carried out from 2005 to 2009 with Afro-Brazilians living in Paris. A particular emphasis was given to the subjective and inter-subjective cognitive processes underpinning the actions and the objective choices of this population in their daily lives. We have focused on the elements generated by the processes of identification which are paradoxically fluid and marked at the same time, revealing a combination that emphasizes the constructed feature of the ethno-racial identities both in Brazil and in France. Likewise, we could observe that the Brazilian skin color identification is repositioned in the French context where the Brazilian paradigm of chromatic racial classification gradually loses its singularity

Context (archaeology · Geography · Identification (biology · Negotiation · Population · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

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