Abstract
This article presents the propositions of the Afropessimist thought, suggesting the concept of antiblackness as a conceptual tool to approach the specificity of racism directed towards black people, and the positionality of the black person in the world inaugurated by modernity. Considering the production of Black Brazilian anthropologists graduated at the African Diaspora Anthropology Program - University of Texas at Austin, we seek to demonstrate how antiblackness has been materialized in spheres of Brazilian society such as security, health and education. In this sense, the article seeks to reveal and discuss how black Brazilian anthropologists from this school have built their analyzes and revealed the racialized structures and dynamics of power - which are specifically demarcated by what we define here as anti-blackness.
Keywords:
antiblackness; Afropessimism; Austin School, Brazil