Racismos e antirracismos a partir do Clube Cultural Fica Ahi pra ir dizendo (Pelotas – RS).

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the coexistence and interaction between different anti-racist projects in Brazil from a specific context: the Cultural Club Fica Ahi Pra Ir Dizendo. This is a black social club located in the city of Pelotas (Brazil), which emerged as a carnival association in 1921, gaining the status of a Club in the late 1940s, and opened its own headquarters in the mid 1950s, remaining active until the present day. Like other black associations, the Fica Ahi Club emerged in the city to face an explicit segregation, which did not allow black people to frequent conventional sociability spaces. Linked to a class division, the club has always been regarded as a space for the city's black elite, with strict rules of behavior and association criteria, originally striving for an integrationist bias of the black “race” to society, with relative adherence to the racial democracy discourse. It so happens that, from the end of the 1970s, the Black Movement reorganizes itself in Brazil, questioning this integrationist perspective and going against the ideology of racial democracy as a way to hide the prevailing prejudices and discrimination. The research addresses how this new discourse reaches the Fica Ahi Club, which impasses cause in the traditional way of the ficahiana community to relate to the other black segments and to the Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations. The research focus is on the period from the late 1970s to the 1990s and is based on semi-structured interviews and document analysis. In this period, marked by the emergence of new discourses on race relations in Brazil and by increasingly close relations with cultural manifestations of black diasporas - such as the North American black music - the theme of "black conscience" enters the Club space, causing several clashes.