The fragmentation of the myth of racial democracy and the pedagogical dimension of black cinema

Abstract

This article deals with fragmentation of the myth of racial democracy, whose monocultural Brazilian society was seen as a racial laboratory paradise for multiracial countries. The so-called "Movimento Negro Unificado" (or Unified Black Movement) fought against racism, police violence and military dictatorship, fragmenting the myth of Brazilian racial democracy. Black activists identified with the filmmaker Glauber Rocha's "Cinema Novo" movement, which adopted black people as the aesthetic framework. Glauber also created the black cinema in Brazil, being the cinema of the vulnerable minorities, in which the image of the Ibero-Asio-Afro-Amerindian made an ontological struggle against the imaginary hegemony of the Euro-hetero-male-authoritarian its Euro-heteronormativity, which was the sense of the Euro colonization. In the pedagogical dimension of black cinema, minorities have developed the construction of the positive affirmation image, teaching exclusionary anachronism as it is, and should be treated, in an inclusive contemporary society.