TY - JOUR
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Cultural diversity
KW - memorials
KW - Quilombo dos Palmares
KW - racism and race relations
KW - Zumbi dos Palmares
AU - Moritz Herrmann
AB - By 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.
BT - Memory Studies
DA - dec
DO - 10.1177/17506980211061456
LA - English
M1 - 6
N1 - Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
N2 - By 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.
PY - 2021
SP - 1362
EP - 1381
T2 - Memory Studies
TI - Democratizing 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
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121047435&doi=10.1177%2f17506980211061456&partnerID=40&md5=3618aa4447e87451d64e1f072e68aa03
VL - 14
SN - 17506980 (ISSN)
ER -