THE CORDIAL ANTI-RACISM OF WHITE ACADEMICS: BETWEEN PRACTICES, PACTS AND SPEECHES
Cordial anti-racism; Whiteness; Academy; Anticolonial; Subaltern feminisms.
This dissertation is driven by nonconformity, fury, and the desire to dismantle academic whiteness. She moves driven by the dream of expanding science and making it a home for black, indigenous and quilombola bodies. To this end, we will work on the concept of cordial anti-racism as a strategy to make visible the violence institutionalized by academia and the power mechanisms that sustain the social and racial privileges of whiteness, showing that even the anti-racist movement can be an instrument of colonization when operated by whiteness. . The research's main objective is to understand how the practices of cordial anti-racism are constructed and structured in academia. As specific objectives, the study seeks to understand how white academics construct and use cordial anti-racism in institutional practices; investigate the mechanisms that support discourses and practices of cordial anti-racism; identify which strategies are triggered by whiteness to sustain cordial anti-racism. Based on the theoretical framework of subaltern feminisms and anti-colonial knowledge, we will use autobiographical narratives and whisper networks as epistemic and methodological resources, enabling memorialistic writing. Transmethodology, proposed by Alberto Efendy Maldonado, and the call for miseducation by Luiz Rufino, collaborated in the construction of methodological paths, since they call for us to oppose the given model of science, breaking with the extractive logics of knowledge, letting ourselves be soaked by the senses, experiences and emotions. With this, it is possible to inhabit the space of knowledge production to dismantle it from within. I accept fury as an important affection to re-enchant myself with the place that corrodes me.