Masculinidades coloniais no fim do império português: o a taque à Vila Alice, Luanda 1975

Abstract

This study reflects upon the Attack on Vila Alice, an attack launched in Luanda, Angola, by the Portuguese Armed Forces on 27 July 1975 against the MPLA – the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. The military strike will be looked at from within the framework of colonial violence linked to the predominantly masculine archetypes and the transversal paradigms of masculinity evident throughout the racial and gender hierarchies, and aimed at humiliating and belittling the Africans. From the perspective of History and Memory, where the analysis of facts has been made in historiographical research, written sources are compared with oral sources. The ensuing critical and reflexive analysis will focus mainly on the racial and gendered deconstruction of the Attack.