O amor à negritude como ferramenta de resistência/descolonização no campo do jornalismo: as vivências e atravessamentos de jornalistas negras/os na atuação-prática do jornalismo antirracista

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to understand how the love of blackness operates as a decolonization tool in the field of journalism. I consider for love what Maturana and Varela (1995) attribute as the socially constructed possibility of looking at the other as an equal. From bell hooks (2019), also understanding that the love of blackness is a tool of political resistance that transforms our ways of seeing and being and, therefore, creates the necessary conditions for us to move against the forces of domination and death that operate against black lives in Brazil. Based on these approaches, and on the social understanding pointed out by bell hooks (2019) that racism is established as a systematic way of denying the value and ways of seeing the world of black people, I seek to address: how the affective, conflicting and moral crossings occur caused by the experiences of racism of the black journalists; how blackness was incorporated into the experience of those who help me as partners in the field, analyzing how this feeling materialized and strengthened in their lives and daily lives.To do so, I used topical life history (SALTALAMACCHIA, 1992; BONI e QUARESMA, 2005; NOGUEIRA et al., 2017) and semi-structured interview (BONI e QUARESMA, 2005) as ethnographic techniques (PEIRANO, 1995; MATTOS, 2011), along with netnography (KOZINETS, 2010), which ethnographically analyzes the online world and its media. Through these methods, the practice of anti-racist journalism revealed - in those who carry it out - a pedagogical conduct used to report a certain event, considering the character of learning that journalistic information grants its public and the ethics of the human being, as it can be found in the works of Paulo Freire (1978). This conduct is based on practices such as active and sensitive listening to black experiences by professionals; and by anti-racist racial literacy (VIEIRA, 2022) on black anti-racist authors and afro-centered spaces. Throughout the research, it was observed that, in this process, the professional himself/herself actively faces the experience of becoming black and puts into practice, implicitly or explicitly, different strategies that decolonize oneself, the context and love of blackness. Thus, the anti-racist media can be defined as a systematic and strategic practice of producing and promoting the love of blackness, generating this love through its pedagogical capacity to teach through information, when it humanizes black people and dictates that they are also worthy of love, including them in society, and thus allowing interracial socialization.