An intersectional analysis of the revolutionary limits and potentialities of youtube videos from the anti-racist perspective of Rita Von Hunt on the “Tempero Drag” channel

Abstract

This study investigated the limits and revolutionary potential of YouTube Channels that, through informal education, constitute anti-capitalist niches. Its general objective was to analyze videos released on the channel “Tempero Drag” that focus on the issue of incarceration and genocide perpetrated by the hands of the Brazilian State against black and poor children, adolescents and young people. From a specific point of view, it aimed to investigate the limits that the YouTube platform presents for access to content that favors a rational analysis of material reality, based on the intersectional methodological approach, with a view to overcoming capitalism; explore the video channel “Tempero Drag” with a focus on contributions to an anti-racist and revolutionary training; and analyze the videos of this channel with a view to their potential for social agitation towards a society whose foundations are not grounded in racism. For this, the 232 videos of the Channel were verified and of these, two were selected: a) Racism, white thing; and b) War on Drugs. The treatment of the videos was based on the intersectionality of the struggles of social movements. As main results, we found that one of the biggest limiting factors of social transformation on the left, through informal education, regimented on YouTube, within the limits of capitalism, even in niches of revolutionary power that have thousands of followers, are the people themselves. platform algorithms. Indeed, it is through the intersectionality of struggles that the revolution will be possible and not through the intersectionality of identities.