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- Title
Ogó: encruzilhadas de uma história das masculinidades e sexualidades negras na diáspora atlântica.
- Authors
Santos, Daniel Dos
- Abstract
The luso-european project of Brazil colonization, beyond provide the meeting with "the others" (amerindians and africans), caused a lot of historic impacts between the New World and The Old World, members of cultural circles completely divergent. On Brazil Colonial, the conceptions about sex, sexuality, eroticism and moral values from both configured a sociocultural intense collision in an ambient classified by Gilberto Freyre like "An intoxication sexual ambient". The ambitious mercantile project of tropic's colonization, moved by the large compulsory slavery work utilization, according the sociologist, would be one of the elements responsible for the depravity promotion and settlers' and colonized sexual liberty; this depravity was staunchly countered between XVI and XVIII century by the Catholic Church and their inquisitorial apparatus, that repressed and tried disciplinary the colonials sexual practices, considered extremely sinful. The Christian-Catholic cultural of affective-sexual repression contributed in decisive form for the transformation of eroticism and sexuality in taboos subjects in our society, always socially avoided and rejected through periods. In the africans and afro-brazilians colonization and enslavement process in Brazil is where we can find the possible origins of mythos and stereotypes related the black man eroticism and sexuality, like their hyper sexuality and hypothec big penis, existent in our imaginary until today. The dehumanization violent attempts, treat like animal, reification, animalization for the black's men bodies on African diaspora by transatlantic human traffic, which initiated (re)inventions process of their respective identities, masculinities and sexualities, is the discussions focus will be developed in this article.
- Publication
Universitas. Humanas, 2014, Vol 11, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1984-9419
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5102/univhum.v11i1.2923