A Praça Tamandaré é um território negro: por uma arqueologia de manifestos antirracistas em Rio Grande/RS.

Abstract

Considering that Tamandaré square, located in Rio Grande/RS, is recognized as a black territory by archeological research and by the black community itself and that it has gone through processes of hygiene in the past and through processes of gentrification in the present, this archaeological study had the objective is to build manifestos that resist the invisibility of materialities and subordinated people in the square over time. In order to go against the official narrative of the Rio-Grandino past, to highlight Tamandaré Square as a black territory for the community and to assist in the anti-racist struggle, for the right to the city, to work and to the memory of people who suffer exclusion processes in that space. For this purpose, three manifestos were developed and broadcast on digital platforms that dialogued with the community about the black presence in the former Geribanda: a video, a carousel post for social networks and a virtual exhibition. All the manifestos dealt with the injustices of the past, which caused the erasure of the memory and trajectory of black people, telling, based on materiality, the experiences, heritage and ancestry that written documents and official history insist on hiding. Not only focusing on the past, the manifestos and this study were also based on the injustices that remain in the contemporary. This was made possible from a social, political, anti-racist, decolonial archeology that disregards linear time. I understand that manifestos focused on the material world and designed from an anti-racist bias, are tools that can legitimize narratives of struggle for the right to the city, memory and work of groups that suffer exclusion from public policies