[Laredviene] New: Journal of ABPN, v. 1, n. 3 - Nov 2010 - fev 2011

[RVA-Revista ABPN]

Nº -3 - Ano II - 30/01/2011










Foreword

Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto, Eliane Cavalleiro e Tatiane Cosentino Rodrigues




Indeed, black women and men are subjects of knowledge! There is no doubt. Emphasizing this glad reality, we present the third  (
Revista/index.php/edicoes/user/setLocale/en_US?source=%2FRevista%2Findex.php%2Fedicoes )Journal of ABPN (
Revista/index.php/edicoes/user/setLocale/en_US?source=%2FRevista%2Findex.php%2Fedicoes ) issue. After a whole year of hard word, we have many reasons
to celebrate and, further, evaluate our accomplishments and challenges for the project's maintenance.

Regarding the readers and this scientific journal receiving, the numbers are thrilling. The Magazine has about 8 thousand views from Americas, Africa
and Europe. Each article has an average of 300 views made by Brazilian readers, but also from countries as United States, Portugal, France, Mexico,
Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Mozambique, Senegal, Canada and Spain, among others.

The contribution given by Brazilian readers was crucial. However, we must recognize that numbers display an interlocution which is due to the dialog
settled with several Diasporic scholars and also intellectuals from the African continent, among whom there are the ones who sent us articles to
enrich and diversify the debate.

Therefore it seems a favourable scene to reaffirming Journal of ABPN’s commitment to the construction of an epistemological critic from the reality
and the knowledge's social organization. Thus, in this third number we aimed amplifying that interlocution between intellectuals within the Black
Diaspora, regarding the writers geographic origins and also their fields and analytic approaches.

The first article, “Ancestral Afro-Equatorial Territories: a proposition for the exercise of territorial autonomy and collective rights�, by Jhon
Antón Sánchez, brings a discussion over the recent experience lived by Afro-Equatorial people in their relation with the new plurinational State, as
evoked on the 2008 Constitution. As this autonomy warranty is closely connected to political control over ancestral territories, Sánchez emphasizes
the historical obstacles and the economic pressures that may endanger the implementation of new “territorial circumscription� Afro-Equatorial, the
process core.

The connection between reconnaissance of collective rights to land and autonomy’s warranty is also a theme raised by Paula Balduino de Melo. On
“Maroon Communities: transition from the condition of enslavement to free peasantry�, she reflects on the problems faced by individual person and
black rural communities in order to constitute themselves as political subjects on the struggle for land reform in Brazil.

Arivaldo Santos Souza, by his turn, reclaim the institutional racism debate in Brazil − which has been using, above all, the British concept
presented on Macpherson report − to propose a deepening to this question for the critic may go beyond assign the institutions responsibility,
reaching the system of racist beliefs that proceeds them, as proposed by the original concept developed by 1960 intellectuals within Black Power
movement. 

The articles from Jaime Amparo-Alves and Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, so, illuminate Souza's approach. On “Racial necropolitics: the spatial
production of death in the city of São Paulo�, Amparo-Alves invokes empirical data to show the reign of a “death spatialization� dynamics on
Brazilian biggest city, where the highest incidence of avoidable deaths and lethal violence points to the black contingent. Claudia Mosquera uses the
recent celebrations of Colombian bicentennial Independence Day to question the citizenship limitations compelled to the Afro-Colombian, and she also
points out the form of action taken by black social movements in Colombia, regarding the strategies to hit the demands settled along the last decades.

Reaching the historiography field, this issue offers two articles that share the interest on conflicts, adjustments and sociocultural re-elaboration
experiences in African Diaspora. Washington Santos Nascimento develops his argumentation in “After May Thirteenth: representations of former slaves
and their descendants in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia (1888-1930)� using criminal process, newspaper and memorialistic texts. The author brings
attention both to the black presence on the local slave trade and to the racial conflicts in the post-abolition. The narrative still illuminates some
paths from black individuals that allows distinguish strategies and ways settled by this subjects of knowledge to be and survive in a racialized
society based on slavery. By its turn, in “Between Africa and Recife: interpretations of the chamba Cult� Valéria Gomes Costa presents a
comparative study that aims to measure approximations and estrangements between the cultural practices noticed on Terreiro Santa Bárbara, from
Nação Xambá, and those reproduced by chambas, an ethinic group that lives on Mapeo and Yeli, regions placed on Niger, Cameroon and Togo.

The Black Women Literature is another stressed topic to this issue. Miriam Alves and Francineide Santos Palmeira take different standpoints to present
a critical review from literary production made by black women, and emphasize the importance of affirming this subject of speech neglected and
silenced among the national literature canons. 

The last essay highlights Education. Fernanda Santos, on “Pedagogical Practices in Ethno-Racial Relations: Identity and Memory�, shows the results
of an action-research made on an Youth and Adults Education class, on Niterói (Rio de Janeiro), that aimed to develop and share pedagogic practices
oriented to the implementation of the Law 10.639/03.

As the essays, the set of books reviews also sought to consider the Journal interest to reach diversity of themes. The critical texts gave attention
to the following publications: Mocambos de Palmares: histórias e fontes (séc. XVI-XIX), organized by the historian Flávio Gomes; A Cosmovisão
africana no Brasil – elementos para uma filosofia afrodescendente, by Eduardo David de Oliveira; A �frica deve unir-se, by the Ghana thinker and
politician Kwame Nkrumah; and Os nove pentes d'�frica, by Cidinha da Silva.

Wishing a great reading to all, we would like to thank the devoted work made by the members from the Editorial and Advisory Councils, as well as the
work of all referees, in their crucial contribution to the demanding task of analyzing and qualifying the submitted articles. Let us follow with our
commitment to the possibility of continuous growth allowed by the contribution of everyone.




Translation: Tatiana Nascimento

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