Vol. 14 No. 1 (2020): Carnaval: cultura e a educação das relações étnico-raciais – imagem do íbero-ásio-afro-ameríndio

The articles presented here reflect on the appropriated carnival as an expression of the African matrix culture. The sense of subversion and differentiation takes on the perspective of race relations. The systemic context of racist oppression against black men and women in Brazil expressed, for example, by subalternization in professional, political, and economic life, is subverted in the cultural scene not only with the black presence in the protagonism of carnival events, but with the impression of the marks of a culture that, according to Muniz Sodré, is an essential dimension of Brazilian culture. Thus, carnival joyfully expresses the real image of a country that denies itself - an "amphrican" country.