A cor dos textos:

possíveis indícios intertextuais de categorização racial

Abstract

This study investigates intertextual clues of the role of racial categorisation in the (dis)

alignment of the meaning attributed by opinion articles’ authors to the hashtag #SomosTodos-

Macacos. The hashtag #SomosTodosMacacos was posted on the Instagram social network by Neymar Júnior on April 27, 2014, in response to a racist incident that occurred on the same day against his then-teammate Daniel Alves during a football match. The study is grounded in socio-cognitivist studies of Textual Linguistics and a socio-historical-cultural perspective on racial categorisation. The methodology involved analysing intertextual features in 10 opinion articles published between April 27 and May 3, 2014, regarding #SomosTodosMacacos. The study’s findings suggest that black authors tend to adopt a critical stance toward the implicitly racist meaning attributed to the #SomosTodosMacacos through intertextual forms of disalignment and other textual constructions.