01921nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002600043653002300069653002300092653003300115653001400148653003000162100002000192245024800212856015000460300001400610490000700624520105200631022002001683                                       d10aQuilombo dos Palmares10aZumbi dos Palmares10aCultural diversity10aIntangible cultural heritage10amemorials10aracism and race relations1 aMoritz Herrmann00aDemocratizing memory and the question of Black difference in Brazil (ca. 1980-1988): The transformation of the Serra da Barriga (Alagoas), from haunted "Black territory" to national memorial in the transition between dictatorship and democracy  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121047435&doi=10.1177%2f17506980211061456&partnerID=40&md5=3618aa4447e87451d64e1f072e68aa03  a1362-13810 v143 aBy voiding the previous social pact, including the predominant conception of racial integration, the Brazilian military regime (1964–1985) created the conditions for a radical understanding of Black difference, which found its leading motif in the memory of the Quilombo of Palmares, a historical community of rebel slaves. A new Black movement understood its cultural and historical experience as containing a utopian legacy, an alternative for a Brazil marked by racism and inequality. To overcome its problems of legitimation, the regime set into motion a process of gradual democratization. The need to symbolically and culturally accomplish this transition created an institutional breach for the memory politics of the Black movement. In this context, the inclusion of the Serra da Barriga, a site of the war against Palmares, into national cultural heritage became the testing grounds for novel politics of culture that changed both the understanding of Brazilian nationhood and Black difference, as represented in the memory of Palmares.  a17506980 (ISSN)