Diasporic dialogues: the visual representation of blacks in art, Brazil and Cuba (1870-1930)

• Grant number: 16/17618-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: April 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: José Alves de Freitas Neto
• Grantee: Kleber Antonio de Oliveira Amancio
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This Project aims discuss the post-abolition period trough visual arts; intent determine if and how black actors, and the universe around then, was represented in this media, on the several post-abolition contexts in the Americas. We have to stay aware to their multiples temporalities, however conscious that the history of post-abolition (as like history of slavery) can't be comprehend in their own integrity just trough national perspective, the chosen path, therefore, values the connectivity. For now, this propose aims to be close to visual narratives of two different countries who's emancipatory dates are close in time. I'm talking about, in this case, about Cuba and Brazil. This project try, starting from the canvas, learn the places offered to ex-slaves and their descendants in these post-abolition societies (physical or imaginary); as like, eventually, which reactions or even their agency in front of the problems that they have to deal in this two different societies. (AU)