How do contemporary black individuals move through the various systems of racial categorization, dependent on "borders of meaning": "color nuances", social contexts and dwelling places, linguistic and cultural aspects? How is the "cross" of group affiliations experienced by those who, for instance, perceive themselves as black and also make part of the Haitian Diaspora in Miami? The present work seeks to provide answers to these questions, based on an initial assumption that the identification with "the black" among a heterogeneous population seems to be guided, on the one hand, by the increasing "indifference" towards the discourse of Africanity (while a call for political and identity formulation) and, on the other hand, by the realization that it is the several situations of conflict experienced by each individual, which fundamentally constitute his/her self-perception and "recognition" as a black individual.
Negritude; Self-perception; Racial categorizations; Identity