Infância e Interseccionalidade

Crianças Negras e Cabelos Crespos

Abstract

This article seeks to relate curly hair and childhood through an intersectional perspective, using the discussion of the film “Felicidade por um Fio” and the animated short film “Hair Love”. First, the concept of intersectionality and childhood in an Afro-perspective was presented. Subsequently, some reflections on the works were listed: Happiness by a thread and Hair Love, highlighting the potential of black children. We seek to place childhood as an essential existential pillar to think about ethnic-racial relations in diaspora, plural masculinities, transgenerationality and gender, envisioning new epistemological, aesthetic and political productions that distance themselves from colonial subjective elaborations. The knowledge of black children who did not go through compulsory smoothing procedures in their childhood is fundamental for thinking about new pluriversal epistemic perspectives. The appreciation of the aesthetics of curly hair in black children can influence decolonization by breaking with whitening as a strategy to control black corporeities.