Facção Falada: Escrevivências de Masculinidades negras Soteropolitanas em Baco Exu do Blues

Abstract

In this dissertation-podcast, entitled Facção Falada: Escrevivências de Masculinidades negras Soteropolitanas em Baco Exu do Blues, I made an “exuzilhada” (exuroads, instead of crossroads) of possible reading paths of the representations of black men in the lyrics of contemporary Salvador rap songs. For that, I needed to develop a dialogue between my understanding of being a black man from the periphery, a teacher with a background in such a stiff area as Literary Theory and the representation of other black men from the periphery engaged in the lyrics of Baco Exu do Blues looking to map the discursive formations (FOUCAULT, 1996) escreviventes (EVARISTO, 2010). Understanding rap as escrevivente and, therefore, one of the vehicles able to express collective enunciations of black experiences in Brazil, I think that it is also, an instrument of an anti-racist campaign, for its capacity of organizing black intellectualities in the process of Letramentos de Reexistência (SOUZA, 2009), in other words, allow for subjective self-management of continuously subordinated people. The present study did not wish to stay imprisoned in the walls made by the white pages, that’s why the podcast genre was the chosen method, so it could broaden the access and the co-production of knowledge, opposite to academic thinking perpetuated by whiteness which restricts the knowledge as a mean of power control and racism maintenance in Brazilian universities. Therefore, this study assembles a corpus dissidente against the institutional racism which limits the possibilities of black men's studies, and, in consequence, inhibits our dreams; the slavery and genocide thinking to which our bodies are conditioned; and the lack of communication, this ancient gesture of our people, that was taken from us by racist actions which interfere in our lives, limiting our affections and destroying us as subjects and, ergo, our families and communities. In recording the podcast, I wanted to make audible the voice of a black man who survived and survives (despite everything) and wanted, also, to say to my brothers and sisters that we need more than survival. In the development of this study I brought as theoretical operators: AGAMBEN (2016), AKOTIRENE (2018), ALMEIDA (2018), BAIA (2011), BARTHES (1988), CEVASCO (2003), DAVIS (2016) DELEUZE (2014), DELEUZE; GUATARRI (1995, 2000), DRAVET (2015), EVARISTO (2010), FANON (2008), FONSECA (2010), FOUCAULT (1987), Flow Podcast (2022) HALL (1999, 2003), hooks (1995, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2020), MBEMBE (2018), Não Inviabilize – Um laboratório de histórias reais (2022), OLIVEIRA (2014), Inédita Pamonha (2022), PEREIRA (2021), PINHO (2019), PODCIRO! PodCiro! (2022), Podpah (2022) Roda Viva (2022), RODRIGUEZ (2018), SOUZA (2009), SOUZA, D. B. DE; (2019), SOUZA, (2011, 2018, 2019), WEST (1999) e WILLIAM (2019).