A conversation to Blacken Social Imaginary

Abstract

We propose a conversation to Blacken the Social Imaginary instigated by the term ‘brindle soul’ in the discussion from the dossier ‘Imaginary from a Latin American perspective’. When turning our gaze, from studies of the Social Imaginary, to the reality in which Latin Americans live, along with the established history that still segregates people by skin tone, the imaginary signification of a term can contain violent approaches. A violence that in writing is usually silent. Thus, we bring to the text two concepts to think about Améfrica Ladina and the imaginaries: desaprendizagem (Rufino, 2021) and amefricanity (Gonzalez, 2020), as a theoretical-conceptual review of the imaginaries, with the aim of cismar - a term in Brazilian ' which carries the movement of critical reflection. The text is full of other concepts, from Afro-descendant intellectuals, mainly women - even though they are silenced by excluding their first names in the citations. Against this violent standardized silence, we try, whenever possible, to write women's first names. This demarcation of 'women' proposes the sharing of knowledge of these - and many other - black female intellectuals who challenge the established models for, we hope, a Blackness in education.