Memórias que não serão silenciadas: reflexões teóricas sobre racismo, colonialismo e branquitude

Abstract

This work aims to point out the problem of black silencing based on racism and, consequently, on the aggrandizement of whiteness in Brazilian society. When analyzing the names given to public spaces and historical monuments to honor the colonial elite, in addition to decorating white protagonism, it also accentuates the silencing of the memory of blackness. Here in this work, I seek to highlight the influences implanted socially since colonization, motivated by the dominance of power. The methodology adopted to characterize how the historical narrative is based on the power game and how this influences the directions of social interest, is a dialogue with Michel-rolph Trouillot. In addition, I also followed the problematic of racism as an instrument of the colonialist system, described by Aimé Césaire in Discourse on Colonialism. From there, we can conclude that whiteness enjoys the domain of power to assume the protagonism and this causes the references of blackness to be erased from Brazilian historiography.