Representações e estereotipias negras: Cruzamentos (im)prováveis entre o folclore holandês e o teatro paulista

Abstract

This article focuses on urban black cultures and the emergence of novel socio-cultural practices around black anti-racist activism in São Paulo and the Netherlands. We raise questions about the resilence of racialized regimes of representation and racial stereotyping in different geographies of colonialism. We then zero in on strategies of struggles for citizenship and representation in different realms of contemporaneity. The article presents an analysis of the phenomenon known as Blackface in two societies where different forms of black activism are found. It seeks to reconstruct the historicity of anti-black racism as the unfolding of colonialism, revealing its mechanics and continuities in the long run, in two points crossing the Atlantic.