Abstract
This paper discusses how poetry in slam tensions society in the context of racism in its various dimensions. The slam wheels are spaces where slammers expose poetic manifestos about racism and other forms of oppression, and where black youth are inscribed in the world through their narratives, interacting with their peers and producing relations that strengthen, legitimize and value their experiences. From an Afrocentric and African-referenced approach, we take slammers poetry as materiality to problematize the place that racial themes occupy in Social Psychology, thinking of the social as a problematic field constructed and produced from different human practices. With this, we can open a crack in the circle of social psychology that displaces the production of knowledge from pluriversality, that is, the possibilities of slam wheels to invite social psychology to compose theories outside the Western-centered academic circle.
Keywords:
Slam; Black Youth; Social Psychology; Afrocentricity; Multiversity