The Other embracing the Othered:

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The Other embracing the Othered

• Afro-Brazilian Religious Circles Forging a
  Collective Identity around Vulnerabilities to
  HIV/AIDS

Jonathan Garcia, M.Phil. Department of
Sociomedical Sciences jg2320_at_columbia.edu
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Support

• The presentation is based on data collected from
  two Studies both sponsored by the U.S. National
  Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Religious Responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil
• (PI Richard Parker, R01 HD050118)
• Responses of Afro-Brazilian Religious Groups to
  HIV/AIDS
• (PI Jonathan Garcia, F31 HD055153) 
• The content is solely the responsibility of the
  author and does not necessarily represent
  the official views of Eugene Kennedy Shiver
  National Institute of Child Health and Human
  Development

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Central Arguments

• Principles and discourses of solidarity and
  citizenship in tension with identity-based
  mobilization
• Framing transversal vulnerabilities related to
  class, race, gender and sexuality.
• Impacts on HIV and AIDS policy

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Ethnographic Method

• Participant observation
• Oral History narratives

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Race and Collective Identity

• Solidarity and African Heritage
• Construction of the black health movement and
  African heritage
• Place budgetary priority of vulnerabilities of
  the black population
• Intersectoral approach to public health

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Gender and Sexuality

• Role of priestess as matriarch
• HIV positive womens groups
• Violence and drug governance
• Acolhimento (Inclusion and care) of
  non-heterosexuals

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From Acolhimento to Resistance

• Resolving tensions between solidarity and
  identity for a common cause reform health
• The other embraces the othered
• Collective identity based on solidarity and
  transversal vulnerabilities has been effective in
  mobilization
• Resistance and Project Identities