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On a visit to Brazil in 2019, Angela Davis interviewed a mostly white audience, and asked: “Why do you still want me to speak when there were important black intellectuals like Lélia Gonzalez (1935–1994) here who already talked about intersectionality?” The audience  applauded, and there was a lot of discussion about Gonzalez on social media. However,  after Davis returned to the USA, the white majority stopped talking about Gonzalez. This  is a classic example of what happens in Brazil: it takes someone from the outside to  appreciate someone from “inside” so that a majority can register it. Even though we  recognize the importance of the thinking of Davis and other black American intellectuals,  we know that although they are geographically located in the Global North, they produce  anti-hegemonic discourses
On a visit to Brazil in 2019, Angela Davis interviewed a mostly white audience, and asked: “Why do you still want me to speak when there were important black intellectuals like Lélia Gonzalez (1935–1994) here who already talked about intersectionality?” The audience  applauded, and there was a lot of discussion about Gonzalez on social media. However,  after Davis returned to the USA, the white majority stopped talking about Gonzalez. This  is a classic example of what happens in Brazil: it takes someone from the outside to  appreciate someone from “inside” so that a majority can register it. Even though we  recognize the importance of the thinking of Davis and other black American intellectuals,  we know that although they are geographically located in the Global North, they produce  anti-hegemonic discourses
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