The Other in Us

Representation of Black African Identity in Portuguese Social Space

Bibliographic Data

ID2226432
AuthorsPaula Mota Santos (0000-0002-5867-7650, Fernando Pessoa University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume74
Issue4
Pages468-484
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/699940
OpenAlexW2897324807
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited11

This paper brings together three sites of contemporary Portugal to search for the commonality in how black African identity is imagined and represented in Portuguese social space: a 1940s Nation-as-Empire theme park (Coimbra, central Portugal), a sixteenth-century black African slave burial site (Lagos, southern Portugal), and the present-day Alfragide police station (Lisbon metropolitan area). I argue that the three sites and subject matters, although separated by decades if not centuries, are all part of the same continuum of the imagined “absence of presence” of black African slavery in Portuguese social space. I also show that the proper understanding of any of the three is enhanced by contemplating the other two

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Black african · Empire · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Representation (politics · Social space · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Subject (documents · Theme (computing · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law

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