From Racialization to Ethnicity

In this research, we examine the collective experience of approximately 120 Angolan students who have been living and studying in the city of Lins (in the interior of São Paulo) since 2004. The hypothesis of our research was that the students developed an ethnic position in reaction to the attribution of blackness (FANON 2008), historically and daily, to people of African origin in their collective experience. In other words, during their stay in Brazil, the students undergo a process of racialization and, in reaction to this denial, produce, through a process of ethnicization, a position that in turn articulates two intersecting sociological cleavages (race and ethnicity).