Memórias do Esquecimento

Description

Despite the central place that Rio de Janeiro played in the Atlantic slave trade until the end of the 19th century, traces of this past remain largely hidden in the urban landscape. This forgetting is not simply a random phenomenon; it also relates to the ideal of racial democracy which has been used to downplay racial inequalities in Brazil in the name of national mixture. But although barely visible, the memory of a slave past has not been erased completely; it emerges ambiguously, but also powerfully, in the daily life of Tia Lúcia and Alder, the main characters of this film.

Runtime

31 minutes

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Database

Alexander Street

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