Intersections between linguistic and raciolinguistic ideologies in the maintenance of racial hierarchies

Abstract

This paper makes a theoretical discussion about the intersections between notions of race and language in racialized societies because of the violent process of european colonization in the Americas, such as Brazil. This racialization subordinates bodies to the detriment of others considered universal and not racialized: white man, european, heterosexual. However, I consider here that all bodies are racialized, as this is a mark of difference that generates social inequalities. Starting from the decolonial perspective (MIGNOLO, 2003; LUGONES, 2014), which highlights the importance of considering the colonial difference as a physical and imaginary space where the coloniality of power emerges and operates, the exhibition will focus on the concepts of linguistic ideologies (BAUMAN; BRIGGS, 2000; BLOMMAERT; VERSCHUEREN, 1998; KROSKRITY, 2004; IRVINE, 1989) and how such ideologies are mobilized to justify racial hierarchies imposed on society (PINTO, 2014; 2018; ROSA; FLORES, 2017; ROSA, 2019; NASCIMENTO, 2019), serving a hegemonic colonial nation project, arising from modernity, centered on the triad: one nation, one people, one language. Such a modern colonial project denies the existence of other cosmologies and ontologies, as a mechanism for controlling bodies. Finally, I present studies that start from border thinking, in the Mignolo (2003) sense, indicating counter-hegemonic solutions and processes of counter colonization, according to hooks (2008); Bispo dos Santos (2015) and others who leave this historically subordinate place to destabilize the academic colonial tradition. Thereby, I will think about the importance of knowledge production generated by academic indigenous and quilombolas aiming at the resumption of their stories, fighting against inequalities that have been justified by the single story (ADICHIE, 2019).