“Quiero ser negro”: black identity from the perspective of being and appearing

Abstract

“Quiero ser negro” is an act of will or a project, the trajectory from one identity (A) towards another (B). As a discourse, it's the personal narrative of two young Spaniards aspiring to blackness. It also appears as a self-fiction focused on identity tourism or the process of psychological alienation, rooted in social subjectivities. Therefore, the ontological nature of identity doesn't exclude mutations, nor does it escape the construction process, essentially being a continuum.