“O que sei sobre o amor, eu inventei”: o agir da branquitude na construção do ser negro e nossos afetos em Brasília/DF

Abstract

The present work is the result of an ethnographic research carried out with people from the black population of Brasília, whether born there or not. The objective of the research and analyses presented here has it roots in years-long concern involving the situations of racial and gender violence present in the country and which also make themselves active through urban mechanisms in the country's capital. The fieldwork included interviews conducted remotely and in person during the years of 2021 and 2022, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, analyses of literary and artistic works and an analysis of the way the black population of Brasília experiences the city, through data produced by the government and events that reached the media. This work allowed me, together with my interlocutors, to analyse constructions of the local cultural imaginary about the black person, the construction of the being and affections of the black person in the face of the situation of racialisation and dominance of whiteness in the country and in its capital.