IDENTIDADES: TRÂNSITO DIASPÓRICO E A AFRICANIDADE

Abstract

This article constitutes a small excerpt from the thesis entitled “Name nala in diaspora: the Senegalese presence in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul”, defended in February 2023 in the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Dom Bosco Catholic University. This part is a theoretical overview produced by observing the identity construction of the research collaborators, the Senegalese. They are fluid, cosmopolitan, traveling human beings, full of ancestry and also post-modern, survivors of the neoliberal capitalist system, polyglots, among other characteristics, and, based on these, they relate to the Campo Grande community. To analyze the identities mentioned, I use post-colonial, post-critical and cultural studies authors, who contribute to the decolonial discussion, of difference and other, border epistemologies, as well as criticizing national identity and thinking about the processes of affirming interethnic, multilingual and politically displaced identities, because in transit, of different peoples who migrate across the planet.