Masculinidades negras: o encontro do mito viril com o mito negro

Abstract

This paper aims to obtain an understanding of the meanings in the existing literature about the performance of black masculinity and how it unfolds within a Society characterized by structural racism and patriarchy. For this, the theoretical part was based on the bibliographical literature of authors such as Silvio Almeida, Neuza Santos, Frantz Fanon, Deivison Faustino, and Pedro Ambra, who focused on the processes of racism and the construction of Western masculinity. By intersecting the racial concept and hegemonic masculinity, some concepts are established and naturalized, corroborating the myth of the black man, thus giving rise to some social responses and behaviors such as the ‘overpowering and predatory black man’; the ‘violent and delinquent black man’; the ‘banana black man’; the ‘white-souled black man’; the ‘whitening black man’; and, the ‘solitary black man’. Finally, the results show the need for the existence of an anti-racist practice in all social areas, a practice that presents itself as a counter-hegemonic resistance, and that distances itself from the corporal/biological enclosure of the black man.