{"id":6289,"date":"2026-08-23T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/bienal-do-livro-de-brasilia-djamila-ribeiro-transforma-lancamento-da-nova-edicao-de-lugar-de-fala-em-verdadeira-aula-sobre-letramento-racial-e-desafios-do-mercado-editorial\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:19:13","slug":"djamila-ribeiro-racial-literacy-where-we-stand-brasilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/en\/djamila-ribeiro-racial-literacy-where-we-stand-brasilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bras\u00edlia Book Biennial: Djamila Ribeiro turns the launch of the new edition of Lugar de Fala into a master class on racial literacy and publishing challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>The Brazilian philosopher argued that anti-racist education is the responsibility of every educator, shared behind-the-scenes stories from her years leading the Feminismos Plurais collection, now with Editora Record, and recounted how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie came to write the foreword<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Before an audience that packed the outdoor area of the <em>Museu Nacional da Rep\u00fablica<\/em> (National Museum of the Republic) during the 6th <em>Bienal Internacional do Livro de Bras\u00edlia<\/em> (Bras\u00edlia International Book Biennial), Djamila Ribeiro presented the expanded and revised edition of <em>Lugar de Fala<\/em> (<em>Place of Speech<\/em>), published in June by Rosa dos Tempos, an imprint of Grupo Record. Nine years after the first edition was released, the new edition has been on tour across Brazil, with launch events already held in S\u00e3o Paulo, Santos, Belo Horizonte, Paraty, and Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The new volume is significantly longer than the original. The opening section has been retained with revisions and updates, while an entirely new second section has been added. The expansion grew out of the need to examine how the concept has circulated over those nine years\u2014a period in which it gained prominence but was also subjected to oversimplification, dilution, and misinterpretation.<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil\u2019s capital, the conversation with the audience became a master class. The first question from the evening\u2019s moderator, Ana Helena Rossi, a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at the <em>Universidade de Bras\u00edlia<\/em> (University of Bras\u00edlia, UnB), opened the door for the author to discuss the importance of racial literacy in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6289 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/en\/djamila-ribeiro-racial-literacy-where-we-stand-brasilia\/foto-7-2-2\/'><img width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-7-1024x616.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-7-1024x616.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-7-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-7-768x462.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-7.jpeg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6259'>\n\t\t\t\tDjamila e Ana Helena Rossi\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Speaking about anti-racist education, Ribeiro returned to one of the contradictions that has shaped Brazilian society: racism was built alongside the denial of its very existence. The last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, Brazil built the myth of racial democracy on that history.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cThat made it much harder for us to understand how racism is structured in our country. So it\u2019s very important that we study race, not only from the perspective of oppression, which was denied for a very long time, but also by bringing reading lists and intellectual work by Black people into our curricula. And those works don\u2019t necessarily have to deal specifically with race. A book by a Black author doesn\u2019t have to be about race. We have Black authors working in many different fields\u2014biology, mathematics; I have a daughter studying math now\u2014and so many others. That also helps break down this tendency to put us into boxes, as though we could only speak about certain subjects,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Djamila stressed the importance of Law 10,639, enacted in 2003, which made the teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian history and culture mandatory in schools, while warning that constant vigilance is necessary.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cUnfortunately, in our country, policies tend to be tied to a particular administration rather than institutionalized by the state. So sometimes we move forward under one administration and backward under the next. And that leaves us with the same difficulty establishing deeper, lasting policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Implementing the law, she emphasized, cannot be treated as the responsibility of Black teachers alone or confined to subjects traditionally associated with racial issues. Responding to a question from the audience about the role of white educators, she was direct:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cEveryone has a place of speech. It\u2019s very important for white teachers to understand that if Law 10,639 exists, then every educator is responsible for implementing it. Sometimes you hear this argument: \u2018Oh, but I\u2019m white,\u2019 followed by another distortion of the concept of place of speech: \u2018That\u2019s not my place of speech.\u2019 You\u2019re going to speak, but from a different position. If only Black teachers are responsible for anti-racist education, how is that supposed to work when we\u2019re a minority? This is the responsibility of every educator,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The author added that just as white writers have been part of the school and academic education of generations of students, the study of race relations and Black intellectual production must become part of the knowledge base of educators and professionals in every field.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cJust as we had to study white European authors, white people also need to study race so they can bring that knowledge into the classroom and build an education that truly understands this multiplicity of voices and intellectual traditions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That kind of education, she argued, makes it possible to understand how racism shapes decisions that may initially seem far removed from racial issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what subject you teach. Sometimes people tell me, \u2018I\u2019m in chemical engineering. Why do I need to know about this?\u2019 Because you live in a society in which racism structures social relations. Imagine you\u2019re an engineer developing a project for a company in an Indigenous community. If you don\u2019t know Brazilian history, you may not be able to understand the impact that work will have on that community. Or think about artificial intelligence data centers, which consume enormous amounts of water and have affected many communities\u2019 access to that resource. Of course you need to understand these issues, regardless of the field you work in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Anti-racist education, then, cannot be reduced to interpersonal relationships or to the idea of teaching respect for differences. It must cut across disciplines.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cPeople still reduce anti-racist education to something like \u2018teaching kids to be nice to their Black classmates.\u2019 That\u2019s not what we\u2019re talking about. It\u2019s about understanding your role and recognizing that this discussion cuts across every field. The problem is that race is usually treated as a specialized issue. For example, if most people experiencing homelessness in Brazil are Black, then talking about housing also means talking about race. That can\u2019t be confined to the <em>Minist\u00e9rio da Igualdade Racial<\/em> (Ministry of Racial Equality), especially when it has a limited budget. Likewise, if many women can\u2019t leave abusive relationships because they have nowhere else to go, then talking about housing also means talking about women\u2019s issues,\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For Djamila, the role of white educators is precisely to broaden that knowledge base instead of treating race and gender as isolated or peripheral issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cPart of a white educator\u2019s responsibility is becoming racially literate and understanding that reading half a dozen Black authors isn\u2019t enough. We need a broader understanding of what anti-racist education actually means. We need to understand, for example, the impact of hydroelectric dams on Indigenous communities. That\u2019s part of the racial discussion too. Reducing this debate to something merely \u2018identity-based\u2019 means failing to understand that we\u2019re talking about structures,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>The challenges of publishing<\/h4>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The first title in the <em>Feminismos Plurais<\/em> (<em>Plural Feminisms<\/em>) collection, <em>Lugar de Fala<\/em> was originally published in 2017 by Letramento and moved to Janda\u00edra\u2019s catalog in 2019. The collection comprises 14 titles written exclusively by Black authors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The initiative expanded with the creation of the Sueli Carneiro imprint, which published additional works centered on Black intellectual production. They include <em>Mulheres Quilombolas: Territ\u00f3rios de Exist\u00eancias Negras Femininas<\/em> (<em>Quilombola Women: Territories of Black Women\u2019s Existence<\/em>), edited by Selma Dealdina and featuring texts by 18 quilombola women; the children\u2019s book <em>Betha, a Bailarina Pretinha<\/em> (<em>Betha, the Little Black Ballerina<\/em>), by Beth\u00e2nia Nascimento, daughter of historian Beatriz Nascimento; and the Portuguese translation of <em>Black Power<\/em>, by Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Between 2017 and 2024, the collection and the imprint published a combined 27 titles through an independent publishing operation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cThat\u2019s a lot. Getting this project off the ground wasn\u2019t easy. I have tremendous respect for the work independent publishers do in Brazil because I know the challenges they face. We kept going until 2024, but by then I was already thinking about giving up because it had become so difficult to sustain the project, despite the impact it had made in the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The collection was also created in response to racial inequality in publishing. In the new edition of <em>Lugar de Fala<\/em>, Ribeiro cites research developed at the Universidade de Bras\u00edlia on authorship in contemporary Brazilian fiction. One phase of the study examined 258 novels by Brazilian authors published by Companhia das Letras, Record, and Rocco between 1990 and 2004 and found that 93.9 percent of the authors were white and 72.7 percent were men. The research was later expanded to a corpus of 689 novels by Brazilian authors published by major publishing houses across periods extending through 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cThe collection emerged in 2017 precisely in that context. It wasn\u2019t by chance that we decided to publish only Black authors. It was important to challenge that narrative and find ways into such a closed market. So I began studying how the publishing industry itself worked: bookstores, revenue shares, distributors, circulation. I needed to understand how a small independent publisher with very limited resources could move these books beyond certain niches. I didn\u2019t want to publish books only for them to remain in some kind of ghetto. I wanted them to become popular and reach different audiences,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Studying the industry led to a reversal of the conventional launch model. Instead of bookstores, which keep 30 to 40 percent of a book\u2019s list price, the team chose public venues and community centers. The books sold for R$19.90, with free shipping and direct sales.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cThat\u2019s technology too: understanding how we, without money and working through a small publishing house, can break through that barrier,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Access was an explicit part of the strategy: the goal was to create environments where audiences felt welcomed and understood that those events were meant for them as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cWe created ways to bring the public closer. One of them was funding copies to give away. Someone would buy a hundred books, for example, and we\u2019d give those hundred copies to the first people who arrived at the launch. There was also music, food, meetings with other authors. The idea was to break with that image of a book launch as a closed, stiff space meant for supposedly very intelligent people. We wanted to create an environment that was genuinely inviting. That was also about access. Bookstores, universities, and certain cultural spaces can be intimidating for people from particular social backgrounds. So we wanted everyone who came in to feel welcome,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2024, the collection moved to Editora Record. Ten of the original 14 titles remain in the new catalog, joined by three newly commissioned books: <em>Sa\u00fade Mental<\/em> (<em>Mental Health<\/em>), <em>Direitos Sexuais e Reprodutivos<\/em> (<em>Sexual and Reproductive Rights<\/em>), and <em>Transmasculinidade<\/em> (<em>Transmasculinity<\/em>). <em>Intoler\u00e2ncia Religiosa<\/em> (<em>Religious Intolerance<\/em>), by professor and babalorix\u00e1 (Candombl\u00e9 priest) Sidnei Nogueira, launched at Flip 2026 (Paraty International Literary Festival), opened the collection\u2019s new chapter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-3-1024x604.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-3-1024x604.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-3-300x177.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-3-768x453.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.djamilaribeiro.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/foto-3.jpeg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Where we speak from<\/h4>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Among the misconceptions the new edition seeks to address, the most widespread is the idea that the concept functions as a way of silencing or excluding people from debate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cDiscussing place of speech means discussing power. It means asking why, during my philosophy education, I was introduced almost exclusively to the thought of white European men. Why didn\u2019t I study women philosophers, whether European, African, or Latin American? Why weren\u2019t those intellectual traditions in the curriculum? Place of speech doesn\u2019t mean silencing someone or preventing them from speaking. That interpretation is a distortion. The concept is precisely about expanding the range of voices recognized as producers of knowledge. The question is: why is knowledge coming from certain social positions the only knowledge that tends to be legitimized? Where is the intellectual production of Indigenous peoples, women, Black women? Why have these perspectives historically been excluded?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">To say that the concept silences people is, in Djamila\u2019s words, \u201ca logical inversion.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re questioning is precisely a silencing that already exists. If it didn\u2019t exist, I would have studied women philosophers, African thinkers, and other intellectual traditions during my education. The fact that these bodies of work were systematically absent already shows that certain voices were privileged while others were erased.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">She summed it up in the phrase that runs through the new edition: \u201cPlace of speech isn\u2019t about what is said; it\u2019s about where one speaks from.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Global South alliances<\/h4>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Djamila concluded her remarks by emphasizing the importance of strengthening alliances among women and intellectuals from the Global South. That relationship takes concrete form in the new edition of <em>Lugar de Fala<\/em>, which features a foreword by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who also contributed the foreword to the English-language edition, published by Yale University Press under the title <em>Where We Stand<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The two met in 2022 at LER \u2013 <em>Sal\u00e3o Carioca do Livro<\/em> (Rio Book Festival), where Djamila moderated a conversation with the Nigerian writer. Chimamanda asked to meet with her several days beforehand and wanted to understand how the Brazilian publishing market worked, since she had never read a Brazilian woman writer. Djamila explained the barriers Brazilian writers face in getting translated, particularly nonfiction authors. At one of their dinners, when Chimamanda learned that the philosopher would be publishing an English-language version of <em>Lugar de Fala<\/em>, she asked for Djamila\u2019s phone number. At their final meeting before saying goodbye, Chimamanda told her to send the book once it was finished because she wanted to contribute. Djamila expected, at most, a back-cover blurb. On May 11, 2024, she received the foreword.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cWhen I got to the United States, people kept asking me in surprise, \u2018How did you get a foreword from Chimamanda?\u2019 My answer became: \u2018Because she isn\u2019t American.\u2019 I say that because Chimamanda is Nigerian. She knows what it means to arrive in the United States as an African woman, even though she comes from a country colonized by the United Kingdom and is an English-language writer. No American woman had ever offered to do anything like that for me. Chimamanda, someone of her stature, was the one who reached out to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">When Djamila thanked her for the foreword, Chimamanda told her the gesture was simply returning something Djamila herself had already been doing in Brazil by publishing, promoting, and creating opportunities for other Black authors. The idea was to keep that cycle of support in motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That network is also reflected in Grada Kilomba\u2019s presence in the new edition. Kilomba, who wrote the book\u2019s introduction, is part of a collaborative relationship Djamila has cultivated for years. Djamila first encountered Grada\u2019s work in 2014 and has since helped broaden its reach in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">By bringing Chimamanda and Grada into the new edition, Djamila reinforces a perspective that has shaped her own publishing career: building networks in which intellectuals can validate, introduce, and expand the reach of one another\u2019s work. More than an individual gesture of support, it is about creating collective pathways so that intellectual production from the Global South can circulate more widely both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<h4>In the audience<\/h4>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Sitting in the front row was K\u00e1tia Schweickardt, Secretary of Basic Education at Brazil\u2019s <em>Minist\u00e9rio da Educa\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> (Ministry of Education). She highlighted Djamila\u2019s ability to address complex issues in ways that people can understand and connect with.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cIt\u2019s a very powerful form of activism because it connects scientific thought with knowledge produced in the Global South, in dialogue with the classical tradition, without giving up the power of Black ways of being, existing, and producing knowledge,\u201d she said, adding: \u201cRace is deeply intertwined with class and gender, and there\u2019s no way to understand the country outside that framework. Seeing Djamila speak to young people makes you proud of who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Cristina Guimar\u00e3es, a social worker, public servant, and one of the organizers of the <em>I Encontro Nacional de Mulheres Negras<\/em> (First National Meeting of Black Women), held in 1988, spoke about the satisfaction of recognizing in Djamila\u2019s work the continuation and expansion of efforts begun by earlier generations of Black women, now further strengthened in academia and intellectual production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">She recalled that organizations such as Geled\u00e9s, Criola, and the <em>Grupo de Mulheres Negras M\u00e3e Andresa<\/em> (M\u00e3e Andresa Black Women\u2019s Group) emerged or gained strength through the organizing process that grew out of the first national meetings of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cSeveral organizations emerged from that first and second meeting of Black women. It was a collective decision\u2014there were 400 of us at the time. What we\u2019re experiencing today is the result of a seed that was planted back then.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Jaqueline Nunes, a physics teacher and Cristina\u2019s niece, first encountered Djamila\u2019s work through <em>Quem Tem Medo do Feminismo Negro?<\/em> (<em>Who Is Afraid of Black Feminism?<\/em>).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cWe live these things, but our perspectives get erased. People think it\u2019s nonsense. And through her, I understood that it isn\u2019t\u2014that it\u2019s real, that it happens, and that we have to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Andr\u00e9 Adriano, a university professor of human anatomy, has followed Djamila\u2019s work since 2015. He said Ribeiro\u2019s presence at the Bras\u00edlia Book Biennial was especially meaningful in a city where he feels there are too few opportunities of this kind.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cBras\u00edlia really lacks this kind of open cultural moment, one that\u2019s rooted in our history. I was extremely happy to hear some of the things we didn\u2019t know about her work and her connections with other authors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The book signing that followed the event lasted more than an hour and a half, and all copies available for sale sold out.<\/p>\n<p>From Bras\u00edlia, the tour continues to Bel\u00e9m and Esp\u00edrito Santo. 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