Strategic entextualization: sensualized performances of race in discursives practices on the Web 2.0

Abstract

This paper analyzes the discursive practices of Luan, a young black man of homoerotic identifications, interacting on the Web 2,0. The data was generated in an ethnographic investigation on the interactional network: the  Facebook. Entextualization  concepts and performance are privileged considering the observation processes of circulation and destabilization of crystallized discourses of race in the construction of identifications of Luan as black, sexy boy.  We advocate these concepts are the key to comprehend how that discourses are strategically used by the young man when he build his performances on interactions with friends from this social network. The analyses show that race identifications are constantly intermingled with performances of gender and sexuality, and agency strategies emerge amidst a profusion of normative meanings.