Decolonizing love

Afrocentric relationships and the break with monogamy

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i21.58591

Abstract

The impacts of colonization interfere in various areas of the black population's life, including their affections. In this context, Afrocentric affective-sexual relationships appear as a strategy of healing and resistance. However, the monogamous structure and Eurocentric ideals about love have an impact on the construction of these relationships, so that they reproduce oppression. For this reason, part of this population has been moving to decolonize their vision of love and build countercolonial relationships. This paper aims to understand Afrocentric relationships, the break with the monogamous structure, and the transformation of the racial experience of black people, based on a narrative review. In this article, it is possible to understand the colonial impacts on the affective experience of black people, the encounter between them as a strategy for transforming the subjective experience, and the sense of community and belonging who acts a transforming play their relationships.

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Author Biographies

Giovana Carla de Jesus Santos, Minas Gerais State University

Psychology student at the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), participant in the research and extension groups Intersectional and Participatory Practices (PIPA) and Center for Psychosocial Support Projects for Students (NUPAPE). She is a volunteer student in the research project O amor tem cor: relações afetivo-sexuais afrocentradas enquanto espaço de cura e resistência and in the extension project Intervenções grupais institucionalistas como contribuições ao acolhimento e inclusão de pessoas negras nas universidades públicas e comunidade externa local.

Lidia Sousa Santos, Minas Gerais State University

She is a psychology student at the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), Divinópolis unit, with a scholarship from the Minas Gerais State Research Support Foundation (FAPEMIG) for the research project O amor tem cor: relações afetivo sexuais afrocentradas enquanto espaço de cura e resistência (Love has color: Afrocentric affective-sexual relationships

Letícia Cardoso Barreto , Minas Gerais State University

Letícia Cardoso Barreto is a feminist social psychologist and professor of Social Psychology at the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), in the city of Divinópolis. She has a doctorate in Human Sciences from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), with a concentration in gender studies; a master's degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with a concentration in Social Psychology and a psychology degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). She did a post-doctoral internship at the Mariana-Rio Doce Interinstitutional Observatory, linked to the Psychology Department of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). She is the coordinator of the research and extension group PIPA - Intersectional and Participatory Practices, linked to UEMG/Divinópolis and registered in the CNPq Directory of Research Groups. She coordinates research and extension projects, especially the research project "Social Psychology, Feminisms and their Interfaces", which is mapping academic production in the field and has been funded with a PQ UEMG productivity grant since 2022. She is a member of the Brazilian Association of Social Psychology (ABRAPSO) and the current vice-president of the Minas Gerais regional office (2022/23).

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Published

2025-02-22

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Santos, G. C. de J., Santos, L. S., & Barreto , L. . C. (2025). Decolonizing love: Afrocentric relationships and the break with monogamy. Revista Periódicus, 1(21), 298–317. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i21.58591

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Vol. 1 No. 21 (2025): Defying monogamy: emergent biopolitics of relational dissidence

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Dossier 21- Defying monogamy: emergent biopolitics of relational dissidence

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