FROM ABSENCE TO EXISTENCE – BLACK INTELLECTUALITIES IN THE COLONIAL SPACE IN SEARCH OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ANTI-RACIST BRAZILIAN PSYCHOLOGY

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Published: Oct 1, 2023
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psychology, intellectuality, epistemicide, blackness

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Paulo Vitor Palma Navasconi
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6330-5835

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In this article, I intend to reflect on the need to rethink Brazilian Psychology and its structure as a science, as well as to make considerations about the silencing of black intellectuals in Psychology. I understand that this action is more than urgent and necessary. Because, it allows us to forge a theory of Psychology and a historiography with different subjects who act in and on the world in the most diverse ways from the most different cosmovisions. Therefore, denaturalizing this non-presence of the black population in the spaces of knowledge production and bringing to light their intellectual/academic productions and even their experiences as active subjects of history is urgent for the transformation of this scenario. Therefore, based on the reflections carried out in this article, I do not only seek to highlight racism, but to produce thoughts that aim to combat the inspired lines of epistemicides inherent in universalist discourses.


Keywords: Psychology; Intellectuality; Epistemicide; Blackness.

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Navasconi, P. V. P. (2023). FROM ABSENCE TO EXISTENCE – BLACK INTELLECTUALITIES IN THE COLONIAL SPACE IN SEARCH OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ANTI-RACIST BRAZILIAN PSYCHOLOGY. Journal of Black Brazilian Researchers Association, 16(Edição Especial). Retrieved from https://abpn.emnuvens.com.br/site/article/view/1560
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Vol. 16 No. Edição Especial (2023): v. 16 n. Edição Especial (2023): Revista da ABPN | Setembro - 2023 | DOSSIÊ TEMÁTICO "PSICOLOGIA E RELAÇÕES RACIAIS: QUESTÕES EPISTÊMICAS E EMBATES SOCIAIS"
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Author Biography

Paulo Vitor Palma Navasconi, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

Psychologist, member of the Yalodê-Badá collective. He was a member of the Nucleus of Interdisciplinary Afro-Brazilian Studies at UEM (NEIAB). Graduated from the State University of Maringá (UEM). Specialist in Social Psychology. Master and Doctor in Subjectivity and social practices in contemporary times by the State University of Maringá. Assistant Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology at Universidade Estadual Paulista (FCL-UNESP Assis). He is a member of the research group on sexuality, health and politics. Advisor and Member of the Management Committee of the Maringá Headquarters of the Regional Council of Psychology. Member of the Risks and Disasters and Ethnic-Racial Commissions of the Regional Council of Psychology (Sede Paraná 08). Member of the advisory board of the general ombudsman of the public defender's office in the state of Paraná. She was a professor of Psychology at the State University of Maringá (UEM), at the Cidade Verde University Center (UNIFCV) and at the Fatecie University Center in the Psychology course. Author of the book: Vida, Adoecimento e Suicídio: Racism in the production of knowledge about young black LGBTTIs published in 2019. He is currently dedicated to studies related to race, gender, violence against the black population, history of Psychology and suicidal behavior.