Historic Repair Policies in Brazil
Brazil, despite being the country with the second largest Black population in the world, presents insufficient actions regarding cultural policies dedicated to the Black population. This country, which was the last to abolish the slavery system, presents strong resistance in the creation of mechanisms for historical reparation. More than 130 years after the abolition of slavery, the laws with this bias remain timid and have cost Brazil’s Black population many efforts and social movements.
The banner-manifesto “Where are the blacks?” erected in 2018, during the Afro-Atlantic Histories art exhibition... was a milestone for the history of culture in Brazil and Afro Brazilian activism.
Luciara Ribeiro
EDUCATOR, RESEARCHER, independent curator, museology technician
Luciara Ribeiro holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Salamanca (USAL, Spain, 2018) and from the Graduate Program in Art History at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP, Brazil, 2019). She holds a degree in Art History from UNIFESP (2014) and has a technical course in museology from the State Technical School of São Paulo (ETEC / SP, 2015). She is a member of the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA). She is a contributor to Contemporary And América Latina Magazine(C&LA) and to the Projeto Afro, a virtual platform. She is a professor at the Department of Visual Arts at Santa Marcelina College (FASM) and the University Center Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP).
Images: Photos by Ricardo Myiada. Images granted use from author, or under creative commons and / or public domain.