{"id":59470,"date":"2020-02-03T21:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59470"},"modified":"2020-02-03T21:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:02:03","slug":"fateful-triangles-in-brazil-a-forum-on-stuart-halls-the-fateful-triangle-race-ethnicity-nation-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59470","title":{"rendered":"Fateful Triangles in Brazil: A Forum on Stuart Hall\u2019s The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fateful Triangles in Brazil: A Forum on Stuart Hall\u2019s The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, Part II<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Contexto International<\/a>
\nVolume 41, Number 2, Rio de Janeiro<\/a> (May\/Aug. 2019)
\npages 449-470
\nDOI: 10.1590\/s0102-8529.2019410200012<\/a><\/p>\n

Sharon A. Stanley<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Political Science
\nUniversity of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n

Jo\u00e3o Nackle Urt<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor
\nFederal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), Dourados-MS, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Thiago Braz<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate
\nInstitute of International Relations
\nPontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

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Stuart Hall<\/a>, a founding scholar in the Birmingham School of cultural studies and eminent theorist of ethnicity, identity and difference in the African diaspora, as well as a leading analyst of the cultural politics of the Thatcher and post-Thatcher years, delivered the W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard University in 1994. In the lectures, published after a nearly quarter-century delay as The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation<\/em><\/a> (2017), Hall advances the argument that race, at least in North Atlantic contexts, operates as a \u2018sliding signifier,\u2019 such that, even after the notion of a biological essence to race has been widely discredited, race-thinking nonetheless renews itself by essentializing other characteristics such as cultural difference. Substituting Michel Foucault\u2019s famous power-knowledge dyad with power-knowledge-difference, Hall argues that thinking through the fateful triangle of race, ethnicity and nation shows us how discursive systems attempt to deal with human difference.<\/p>\n

In \u2018Fateful Triangles in Brazil,\u2019 Part II of Contexto Internacional\u2019s forum on The Fateful Triangle<\/em>, three scholars work with and against Hall\u2019s arguments from the standpoint of racial politics in Brazil<\/a>. Sharon Stanley argues that Hall\u2019s account of hybrid identity may encounter difficulties in the Brazilian context, where discourses of racial mixture have, in the name of racial democracy, supported anti-black racism. Jo\u00e3o Nackle Urt investigates the vexed histories of \u2018race,\u2019 \u2018ethnicity\u2019 and \u2018nation\u2019 in reference to indigenous peoples, particularly Brazilian Indians. Finally, Thiago Braz shows, from a perspective that draws on Afro-Brazilian thinkers, that emphasizing the contingency of becoming in the concept of diaspora may ignore the myriad ways by which Afro-diasporic Brazilians are marked as being black, and thus subject to violence and inequality.<\/p>\n

Part I of the forum<\/a> \u2013 with contributions by Donna Jones, Kevin Bruyneel and William Garcia \u2013 critically examines the promise and potential problems of Hall\u2019s work from the context of North America and western Europe in the wake of #BlackLivesMatter and Brexit.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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