Blacks are hell! An essay about men’s colors, demons and gods

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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2016v17n2p46

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2016v17n2p46

The aim of this paper is to question the pair black.white in the Brazilian social construction. The hypothesis approached is that ‘black’ is not color, but a metaphor for the body of an infernal being. Official statistics, the history of the Brazilian formation, a Pastor and Federal Deputy’s statement, the painting Liberation of Slaves (1889) by Pedro Américo, and the story of gothic cathedrals in the Middle Ages, are evoked as references for the analysis from a linguistic-discursive standpoint. It is worth mentioning that a long story of alignment of the signified white-light-gods-heaven-freedom… and black-darkness-demons-hell-slavery... are still in process in our country.

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Walker Douglas Pincerati, Walker Douglas Pincerati

Professor Adjunto na Universidade Federal do Pampa campus Jaguarão. Professor Substituto no Departamento de Língua e Literatura Vernáculas da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Bacharel, Mestre e Doutor em Linguística pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

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2016-10-08

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2016): Análise(s) do(s) Discurso(s)

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