Beyond Latinidad, Toward Blackness: The Educational Experiences of Afro-Brazilian Immigrants in South Florida

• In Event: The Educational Experiences of Immigrant Youth

Abstract

This study is an effort to excavate and conceptualize the educational experiences of Afro Brazilian immigrants in South Florida. I draw from critical humanizing methodologies, such as Black digital humanities and oral history, to capture the racialized educational experiences of AfroBrazilian immigrants in South Florida. I employ these nontraditional methodologies to investigate how AfroBrazilian immigrants navigate and negotiate their ethno-racial identity in educational spaces, illuminating the role education has historically played in further marginalizing Afro-Latinx people. The argument derived from the lived experiences of AfroBrazilians suggests that the intersectional and multilayered nuances of the AfroLatinx identity complicate essentialized racial frameworks adding texture to notions of Blackness and Latinidad at a transnational level, shaping educational discourses, policies, and practices.

Author

• Carolyn Silva, University of Nevada - Reno