LÁGRIMAS, SANGUE, LEITE, SUOR, SALIVA E SÊMEN:

FLUIDOS DO CORPO NEGRO QUE MOVEM O MOTOR CHAMADO BRASIL

Abstract

The text presents reflections from studies on racial relations and racialization developed in the last decade by the author. The historical method was used in an exploratory research that identifies representations of the black body in Brazilian society. The objective was to understand the fluids produced by this body - blood, sweat, tears, milk, saliva and semen - which tell the story of a diaspora. The analogy of the country as an engine will be used to give meaning to the fluids of the black body, used to move the gears of Brazilian development. The result reveals, from these fluids, a structural process that is perpetuated over time, always gaining new meanings and resignifications. Fluids, therefore, express a place in the social hierarchy attributed to the black population in Brazil.