Movimento Negro in Salvador de Bahia

An Alliance Between Things

Bibliographic Data

ID6135328
AuthorsPaola Rizzo (0000-0002-3375-3119, University of Milano-Bicocca, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume13
Issue1
Pages53-64
Publication date2022-09-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropologia integra (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1804-6657 • E-ISSN: 1804-6665
PublisherMasaryk University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5817/ai2022-1-53
OpenAlexW4295250478
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited31

Walking through Salvador de Bahia’s streets one perceives the presence of symbols of the culture of struggle promoted by the Movimento Negro, which invites to encher o espaço (“fill the space”) with celebratory representations of Afro-descent, in response to local structural racism. An attempt was made to understand who or what the Movimento Negro was through fieldwork. The centrality of the material and sensitive dimension, as a space for struggle among economic and racial groups (Rancière 2004), has emerged. Both racism and the forms of resistance in response to it are visible and materially manifest in bodies, spaces, and objects. Movimento Negro is a hyperobject (Morton 2018). It’s a “multispecies assemblage” (Haraway 2015): caught in its sensual manifestations, it forces us to question the local system of meaning and the very epistemological paradigms on which Modernity is based (Gilroy 1993

Aesthetics · African descent · Alliance · Assemblage (archaeology · Centrality · Epistemology · Geography · Meaning (existential · Modernity · Political science · Racism · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America · Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil

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