The Deconstruction of Cape Verde as a Brasilin: A Cape Verdean in Brazilian Land

Authors

  • Cláudio Alves Furtado Universidade Federal da Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.141646

Keywords:

Brazil, Africa, Cabo Verde, Representation, Identity

Abstract

The article seeks, from a personal record, to reflect on the multiple and, sometimes, ambiguous visions that mark an unfamiliarity and a lack of knowledge of Africans from Brazil and Brazilians towards Africans, often leading to construction of narratives that tend to essentialize and reify the “Other”. The African matrix of Brazilian culture and the influence of African ancestry on the formation of Brazilian cultural identity, on the one hand, and the vision of a racially mixed and cordial Brazil, conveyed both in academic productions and in export products such as telenovelas tend to build an image, at least, romantic for Africans. Having, specifically, as a focus of analysis the Brazilian image construction in Cabo Verde, the text confronts such construction with the experience of a Brazilian reality that refuses to accept it.

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Published

2017-12-23

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Cross-cutting Approaches to Africa: Movements and Mediations

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How to Cite

Furtado, C. A. (2017). The Deconstruction of Cape Verde as a Brasilin: A Cape Verdean in Brazilian Land. Revista De Antropologia, 60(3), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.141646