ABSTRACT
This article examines some aspects of the Black Rio movement: the explosion of soul parties (music and dance) which brought together thousands of black youngsters (men and women) in the 1970s Rio de Janeiro. Aside from approaching the controversies the movement caused in the press, along with the persecution imposed on it by the repressive agencies of the military dictatorship, the article shows how Black Rio disseminated an affirmative discourse of blackness, connected to the transnational Afrodiaspora, which triggered a large public debate on the issues of race in Brazil and contributed to the process of resignifying Afro-Brazilian identity.
Keywords:
Race; Black population; Culture; Nation; Identity