Online event: “Decolonising the Arts in Latin America: Anti-Racist Disruptors in the Art World”
Wednesday 29 July 2020: an on-line conversation among Black and Indigenous artists and creative practitioners who are staking out new territory in the art world in Latin America, challenging art museums, cultural institutions, theatres and publishers in relation to questions of racism and racial difference.
Learning to Heal in an Amazonian Capital
By Jamille Pinheiro Dias It’s my 37th birthday, and I’m seventy days into social isolation in my hometown. Being from Belém has gifted me with a taste for the wonders of brega popular music, a knowledge of traditional herbal baths and an ability to cope with extreme...
Sowing the seeds of Muntú (part 1)
By Ashanti Dinah (Activist, Poet, Teacher, Researcher)
Alongside the social definition of black people as “criminal, immoral and dirty”, I, like other women in Our America, was educated in a patriarchal, authoritarian, classist, sexist and racist society.
Sowing the seeds of Muntú (part 2)
By Ashanti Dinah (Activist, Poet, Teacher, Researcher)
I believe that literary criticism with Hispanic roots has to change the traditional theoretical and methodological tools used for the textual and discursive analysis of our cultural productions.
Sembrando semillas del Muntú (parte 2)
Por Ashanti Dinah (Activista, Poeta, Maestra, Investigadora)
Considero que la crítica literaria de herencia hispánica tiene que cambiar sus herramientas teóricas y metodológicas tradicionales usadas para el análisis textual y discursivo de nuestras producciones culturales.
Sembrando semillas del Muntú (parte 1)
Por Ashanti Dinah (Activista, Poeta, Maestra, Investigadora)
Junto con la definición social de que las personas negras “son criminales, inmorales y sucias”, como cualquier mujer negra de Nuestra América fui educada en una sociedad patriarcal, autoritaria, clasista, sexista, racista.
On Rugby Players, ‘Negros’, and What Is Said and Seen about Racism in Argentina
On 18 January 2020, news came out that shocked Argentina: a nineteen-year-old boy called Fernando Baez Sosa had been beaten to death in the small hours of the morning outside a nightclub in a summer resort. The crime immediately triggered an important public debate, motivated primarily by the fact that the perpetrators were a group of young male rugby players.
De rugbiers y “negros de mierda”: lo que se dice y se ve del racismo en Argentina
El 18 de febrero de 2020, la sociedad argentina se estremeció frente a la noticia del asesinato a golpes de un joven de diecinueve años llamado Fernando Baez Sosa, ocurrido a altas horas de la madrugada en la puerta de una discoteca en un centro de veraneo. El crimen de inmediato generó un importante debate público, motivado principalmente por el hecho de que los perpetradores eran un grupo de varones jugadores de rugby de entre dieciocho y veintiún años.
Thoughts on Art and Politics
I was reading some reviews of a book by art critic Hal Foster, called What Comes After Farce? I think it is relevant for our CARLA project because it tackles the question of the political engagement of art in the current climate.
CARLA Researcher in Webinar on “Creative Engagements on the Front Lines”
Yesterday (24 June 2020), a CARLA researcher, Jamille Dias, participated in a webinar, “Extracting Us: Creative engagements on the front lines”, with Brazlian Indigenous artists Denilson Baniwa, Edgar Xakriabá and Jaider Esbell.
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