Afro Love

Counter-literacies in Brazilian natural hair communities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12915664
AutoresMarla R Goins (0000-0001-5527-2677, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume14
Fascículo2
Páginas99-115
Data de publicação2021-05-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17528631.2022.2091378
OpenAlexW4283579797
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas38

This study explores afro hair as a central component of transnational anti-Black and Black-empowering literacy construction. It argues that Black women in São Paulo City, Brazil, constructed Afro Love Counter-Literacies that were Black-empowering by embracing afro hair. Scholarship on Black feminism, racial literacies, and critical literacies guided the narrative analysis. The findings highlight two interworking mechanisms of Afro-Love Counter-Literacies: (1) alfabetização afro, which refers to languaging, caring for, and styling afro hair; and (2) letramento afro, which describes the development of affirmative beliefs about afro hair. Participants drew upon these literacies to (re)read and (re)write the world through an afro-affirming Black feminist lens

Aesthetics · Art · Black feminism · Black women · Literacy · Literature · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies