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Afro Love: counter-literacies in Brazilian natural hair communities

Afro Love: counter-literacies in Brazilian natural hair communities This study explores afro hair as a central component of transnational anti-Black and Black-empowering literacy construction. It argues that Black women in São Paulo City, Brazil, constructed Afro Love Counter-Literacies that were Black-empowering by embracing afro hair. Scholarship on Black feminism, racial literacies, and critical literacies guided the narrative analysis. The findings highlight two interworking mechanisms of Afro-Love Counter-Literacies: (1) alfabetização afro, which refers to languaging, caring for, and styling afro hair; and (2) letramento afro, which describes the development of affirmative beliefs about afro hair. Participants drew upon these literacies to (re)read and (re)write the world through an afro-affirming Black feminist lens. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African and Black Diaspora An International Journal Taylor & Francis

Afro Love: counter-literacies in Brazilian natural hair communities

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN
1752-864X
eISSN
1752-8631
DOI
10.1080/17528631.2022.2091378
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Abstract

This study explores afro hair as a central component of transnational anti-Black and Black-empowering literacy construction. It argues that Black women in São Paulo City, Brazil, constructed Afro Love Counter-Literacies that were Black-empowering by embracing afro hair. Scholarship on Black feminism, racial literacies, and critical literacies guided the narrative analysis. The findings highlight two interworking mechanisms of Afro-Love Counter-Literacies: (1) alfabetização afro, which refers to languaging, caring for, and styling afro hair; and (2) letramento afro, which describes the development of affirmative beliefs about afro hair. Participants drew upon these literacies to (re)read and (re)write the world through an afro-affirming Black feminist lens.

Journal

African and Black Diaspora An International JournalTaylor & Francis

Published: May 4, 2021

Keywords: Counter-literacies; racial literacies; natural hair movement; Transnational Black Feminism; Brazil

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