November 20th as Pedagogy: How AfroBrazilians utilized Celebration to Retell their History (Poster 33)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Friday 11:45am
  In Invited Poster Session: AERA Promising Scholarship in Education Research: Dissertation Fellows and Their Research Poster Session

Abstract

This research presents an interdisciplinary history of how AfroBrazilians used fugitive educational spaces to foster communal reflection, historical consciousness, social critique in the 20th century. My poster centers the theme of celebration and commemoration. In 1988 as Brazil prepared to celebrate 100 years after abolition, AfroBrazilians used the centennial celebration to reflect on their experiences, negate Brazil’s false history of racial harmony, and celebrate their own Black Consciousness Day on November 20th, honoring Ganga Zumbi, deceased leader of the Quilombos. Utilizing oral histories and newspapers, I investigate how AfroBrazilians in São Paulo used celebration as took for negotiation and placemaking. Employ AfroBrazilian feminist theory, I uncover what I call “intimate pedagogies of resistance”.

Author

• Jasmine Norma Watson, Pennsylvania State University