Revised wall labels that highlight the "discursive strategies of silencing the history of slavery in Brazil" and how museums have been complicit in the process of silencing.
The jongo is a dance that was originally performed by the enslaved workers at coffee plantations in southeast Brazil. Today, the quilombo of Santa Rita do Bracuí is continuing this Afro-Brazilian tradition.
This 19th-century sculpture and mask in wood was used in processions of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men, in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. She was adopted as a symbol of the Decolonial Brazil: other histories exhibition at the…
From left to right: William Polley, Shannon Smith, Catherine Jalbert, James Sidbury, Anthony Pinn, Jeffrey Fleisher, Angela Pfeiffer, Chris Eliott, Sam Collins, Molly Morgan, Brett Cruse, Hermann von Hesse
Located in the terreiro Ilê Omolu Oxum, the Memorial Iyá Davina is a documentation and research center open to the public and dedicated to Afro-Brazilian society and culture. The center stores various materials (including photographs, drawings,…