Entre o exótico selvagem e o exótico domesticado

Abstract

I will present the similarities between the experiences of Afro-Asians in Japan and Brazil, scrutinizing the globally widespread processes of racialization, bringing in the intersectionality of issues of gender and race, identity and standards of beauty; I will address the hypermasculinization of black, Afro-descendant men and the emasculation of yellow, Japanese-descendant and Asian-descendant men. Are the stereotypes that fall on the Afro-Asian a mix of stereotypes already widespread about Asians and blacks on national soil? These representations will be approached by bringing in Edward Said and Frantz Fanon, the readings on black masculinity by anthropologist Mara Viveiros Vigoya, who uses the work of Raewyn Connell as her main guide; I will bring up reflections on Afro-Asianity by bringing in the contributions of Igor Rennó Machado, and his idea of Japaneseness present in the Laboratory of Migration Studies (LEM). Through ethnography developed in cyberspace in the "Afro-Asians Brazil" group, I shed light on issues relating to race, racism, gender, masculinity and identity. I get in touch with this sociability network through virtual interviews with members, investigating their conceptions of these notions.