Exposições de ausências: o Museu Sacaca e o negro no Amapá

Abstract

It is notorious in the social environment that people go through vexing situations with regard to racial issues. The Sacaca Museum is an environment that can become a great collaborator in the dissemination of this knowledge, as well as with regard to issues of religions of African origin and, thus, help in interracial dialogue in the fight against intolerance and prejudice in the state of Amapá. Therefore, the objective of this work is to investigate the absence of memories, histories and cultural representations referring to black people and their contribution to society within the Sacaca Museum. Due to this fact, this space allows us to problematize why in the Sacaca Museum there is no type of environment or ambience that propagates the expressions of the culture of the black people and their history in the state? The theoretical discussion was based on authors who interface and defend an approach on history, memory, representation, museums, culture, expressions of African-based religions, religious intolerance, inter-religious dialogue, the arrival of black people in Brazil, black culture, emphasizing a humanist perspective, past, present, future, the relationship between the sacred and ritualistic mysticism. The research will also have field activity at the Sacaca Museum, conducting interviews with current and former managers of the museum as well as with employees, researchers and archives of the Museology Center that will support the analysis interposing the theorists. The research is justified by the absence of cultural representations of African blacks in the Sacaca Museum, because it is understood that this has open doors and can become a diffuser of Afro-Brazilian cultural knowledge, asking us why this is not being carried out