The coloring: colored and the production of black subjectivities in contemporaneous Brazil

Abstract

This paper problematizes the positions occupied by color/race in Brazilian ethnic-racial dynamics and relates them with the black subjectivity process in Brazil. After an historiographical analysis of the XIX and XX centuries and of black women’s narratives posted on the blog Blogueiras Negras, we highlighted a change in the use of the word pardo. Working with some of the tool-concepts of Michel Foucault, we show that the changes identified interfere in the production of black subjectivity and are important for rethinking contemporaneous education.