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.
A Roundhouse-Museum for Feliciano Lana, the Son of Dream Drawings
“As an artist and an Indigenous person, my obligation is to keep Mr. Feliciano’s memory alive and present, so that his poetry and greatness will be known by as many people as possible. To care for his memory so that he’s present in our living thoughts, for to understand the past is to ensure that the future will be a positive experience for those to come”. Read Denilson Baniwa’s tribute to the great Desana artist Feliciano Lana, who passed away on May 12, 2020 in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, after battling Covid-19.
Pandemic, Racism and Indigenous and Black Genocide in Brazil: Coronavirus and Extermination Policy
Tragedies are always socially unequal and expose in a striking way historically constructed inequalities. Exposure to the new coronavirus and the treatment of its effects among human populations have been distributed extremely unevenly. While some people have had privileged access to medical care, other social groups disproportionately bear the negative effects, in a pattern structured by social classifications.
Hip hop artist Katu Mirim discusses anti-Indigenous racism from an intersectional perspective
Indigenous Brazilian rapper Katu Mirim recorded this video for our project. In it, she responds questions posed to her by CARLA project researcher Jamille Pinheiro Dias about her work in relation to anti-Indigenous racism from an intersectional perspective. She also...
Ritual Masks for a World in Crisis
Denilson Baniwa was born in Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil, in 1984. His art explores his experience of being Indigenous in the current moment, combining traditional and contemporary Indigenous references, and making use of Western icons to raise awareness about the struggle of Indigenous peoples in various media and languages. Here he presents “Ritual Masks for a World in Crisis”, an artwork created for the IMS Convida programme, which encourages artistic creation during the coronavirus quarantine.
Memories of the Past, Fear of the Present: Being Indigenous in the Face of the Pandemic
Francineia Fontes Baniwa: When we speak of Indigenous peoples and the current challenge of the pandemic, I think immediately of my Upper Negro River region in the northern part of Amazonas state. Just in the first months of the year, I lost my aunt, my father’s sister; my children lost their grandfather on their father’s side; a close relative lost her baby in childbirth, and today I received the news that the wife of my cousin Daniel passed away as she was giving birth, but the baby survived.
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