The black presence in Amapá

speeches, tensions and racism

Abstract

This text aims to discuss about the black presence in Amapá: speeches, tensions andracism. The creation of federal territories in the Amazon and the coming of Captain Janary Gentil Nunes for Amapá during the Getúlio Vargas govemment unleashed over the years, a number of tensions, speeches and processes discriminate a against black people in the capital of Amapá. The arrival of Janary Nunes to Macapá, in 1994, triggered a series of social, economic, political and urban transformations, as the govemment was to consolidate his project to people, sanitize, educate, the Amapá territory. Macapá, with the abolition of slavery, the rulers felt bothered by the daily presence of blacks in Amapá capital and therefore decided to transfer them, segregate them and delete them to the outskirts of Macapá. From the arrival of Iatlian priests in the state, there was a great movement to repress African cultural events. However, the invisibility of blacks in Amapá, is not limited only to the physical aspects. It also manifests itself in symbolic terms. In education, this invisibility takes shape and form in the absence of black and criteria in school curricula and in the distant discourses of practice.