Anti-racist and decolonial arts

images of afrodiasporic women at the Parintins Folk Festival, Amazonas Summary:

Abstract

The black presence in the Amazon remains invisible and denied in the face of the tricks of a racist and colonized society. Thus, visualizing Africanities in the region becomes important in filling this scientific and social “vacuum” generated by discriminatory processes in more than five hundred years of invasion. In this bias, the article fosters the proposed debate through images of black women who make their home in this also black Amazon, aiming, as a counterpoint to a racist history, to present these images from other perspectives, with representations that instigate new understandings - now of resistance and fight. For that, an ethnographic research was undertaken while participating in the construction of the Garantido de Parintins boi-bumbá. As main conclusions, it can be seen that, after reporting the relationship between the ox-bumbá and the Afro protagonism in the Amazon, through Catirina, Anastácia and Rainha Nzinga, there is a need for greater circulation of decolonial trajectories in order to make history visible. seen “from below”, by people purposely erased from Eurocentric and racist narratives.