Avaliação: AMÉRICA EN LA RECONFIGURACIÓN GLOBAL: SIGLOS XX Y XXI – Miami’s Forgotten Brazilians: Racialization and the Politics of Exclusion of AfroBrazilians in South Florida

This study is an effort to excavate and conceptualize the racial dynamics that have historically fomented the waves of Brazilian immigration to the United States from the 1980s to the present day and captures the AfroBrazilian migratory experience in South Florida. In particular, I seek to understand how AfroBrazilians navigate racialization, particularly in contexts and spaces that dismiss and marginalize the Afro-Latinx identity. In doing so, I situate the AfroBrazilian experience as critical to interrogate the ways in which racial formations and race relations from Latin America circulate hemispherically to specific locales in the United States, such as Miami.
This qualitative study is grounded in humanizing methodologies espoused by scholars of color to understand how AfroBrazilians negotiate their ethno-racial identities within and without their educational experiences. The focus on Miami intends to reveal the overlapping network of connections between nation-building projects between the Americas, exposing the transnational and global nature of anti-Black racism. I argue that AfroBrazilians in Miami experience a process of triple racialization in which three distinct lexicons of oppression--monolithic notions of Latinidad from Latin America, the Black-white in the United States, and their own national identity as Brazilians--come together to shape experience. Conversely, my work expands upon the blueprint of Latinidad by conceptualizing the AfroLatinx experience through the lens of AfroLatinidades.

• Afrolatinidades
• Afro-Latinx
• AfroBrazilian immigration
• racialization