'Black Rio! Black Power!'

When Black Narrative Leisure Enters the Scene

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the documentary Black Rio! Black Power! and its relations with the production of an imaginary of affirmation of the black race in the sphere of leisure. To do this, we use a film analysis methodology: a) watch the documentary, describing its parts; b) transcribe the speeches and summarize excerpts, identifying moments in which characters remember how young people's consciousness about being black was formed and c) select images from the film that correspond to black consciousness and pride. As results we understand the Black dances, they can be understood as quilombamentos and, therefore, an ideological instrument against forms of oppression. Leisure is at the center of the racial debate scene in which soul and black dances are spaces of freedom to become black, which opposes the negative image of the black body, a result of the imaginary of coloniality.