A REPRESENTAÇÃO ESTEREOTIPADA DO NEGRO NAS ARTES VISUAIS
Visual Arts, Black Stereotypes, Multiculturalism, LDB 11.645/2008
This work aims to investigate the representations of blacks in Brazil, analyzing how the
hegemonic visual culture reproduced and contributed to legitimate racism in different
periods and through different means.
This proposal comes from indications drawn from the guidelines of LDB 11.645/2008,
which defends the necessity to discuss images that have been produced according to
ideologies, scientific studies and theories from the past. Moreover, these guidelines also
advise teachers to include, in classrooms, both approaches to Afro-Brazilian culture and
art and critical analysis of negative visual constructions perpetuated in relation to black
culture.
This dissertation arises from the problematic pointed out in the law
that deals 11.645/2008 with "banishing negative images forged by different means of
communication". This research composes a reflection of this subject in
contemporaneity, from a perspective of “images that fix and disseminate contents".
We intend to discuss in this qualitative research, ideologies and symbolic annihilations
of the productions of images made through the "white look", as in the works of the
French artist Jean Baptiste Debret, as well as in TV characters and contemporary media
objects, such as a clip by the singer Malu Magalhães. Finally, we discuss how
contemporary negative images affect the social mobility of Afrodescendants, as well as
how new technologies, access to education and reparative public policies and paradigms
shift can be of great use to bring new discussions in favor of racial democracy.