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Flows of Freedom: post-abolition, black women, Afro-Brazilian history and culture

Fri, October 31, 1:30 to 3:00pm, Marriott St Louis Grand, Landmark 1

Session Submission Type: Panel

Description for Program

The panel entitled Flows of Freedom: post-abolition, black women, Afro-Brazilian history and culture, addresses intersections regarding Afro-Brazilian experiences in the post-abolition period based on the historical protagonism of black women and black men, their cultural practices and historical interventions. Different historical temporalities and territorialities that flow under the emancipatory action of black Brazilian people will be analyzed.
Inspired by the theme of ASWAD 2025, “I Knew Rivers: The Ecologies of Black Life and Resistance”, this panel explores black masculinities, abolition and post-abolition in Minas Gerais/Brazil, between 1880-1910, through the analysis of archival documents; it integrates a reinterpretation of archives, scriptural authorship, and the history of black Brazilian people, revisiting the legal process, in archives, as a device for writing and emancipation; addresses the epistemic flows of black women and their abolitionist literacies in the Cerrado, the birthplace of waters in Central Brazil; and it analyzes how Street Carnival in Rio de Janeiro has been commodified by neoliberalism through municipal law, in a process that ultimately aims to "de-Africanize" popular cultures.
Through different approaches, the panelists investigate the forms of Afro-Brazilian action and protagonism, emphasizing the protagonism and struggles for the emancipation of black women and men, expanding the margins and acting to build cultural and social spaces as unique strategies that allow us to understand the Afro-Brazilian experience as part of an Atlantic ecology, in broader connections, for emancipation.

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