SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF RACISM AND AFRICAN AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS IN GRAFFITI BY BLACK BRAZILIAN ARTISTS: BLACK PAINTS ON WHITE WALLS

Abstract

Graffiti as a critical and contesting art is used by black women as a way of claiming a discursive and visual right to the city. In other words, the walls allow these artists to say something that does not fit into the dominant narrative and escapes through paint. In Brazilian society, being a black woman means fighting for a social existence. The objective of this work is to investigate, through social representations, racism and expressions of african culture in graffiti images by black Brazilian artists. The importance of this investigation is to provide a discussion of racism and the process of subjectivation of black women, based on a popular and resistant art - graffiti. A qualitative methodology will be used, with ethnopsychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory as the basis for reflection on the field investigated.