{"id":45603,"date":"2016-02-13T03:34:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45603"},"modified":"2016-02-13T03:39:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:39:37","slug":"a-call-for-end-of-the-globeleza-mulata-a-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45603","title":{"rendered":"A call for end of the \u201cGlobeleza Mulata\u201d: A Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

A call for end of the \u201cGlobeleza Mulata\u201d: A Manifesto<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent<\/a>
\n2016-02-08<\/p>\n

Stephanie Ribeiro<\/strong> and Djamila Ribeiro<\/strong><\/p>\n

Originally, “A Mulata Globeleza: Um Manifesto<\/a>” from <\/em>Agora \u00e9 que s\u00e3o elas<\/a> (2016-01-29).<\/em><\/p>\n

The Globeleza Mulata<\/a> is not a natural cultural event, but a performance that invades the imaginary and the Brazilian televisions during Carnival<\/a>. A spectacular created by art director Hans Donner<\/a> to be the symbol of the popular party, which exhibited for 13 years his companion Val\u00e9ria Valenssa<\/a> in the super-expositional function of \u201cmulata<\/a>\u201d. We\u2019re talking about a character that appeared in the nineties and still strictly follows the same script: it is always a black woman that dances the samba<\/a> as a passista<\/em> (Carnaval dancer), naked with her body painted with glitter, to the sound of the vignette displayed throughout the daily programming of Rede Globo<\/a> (TV).<\/p>\n

To start the debate on this character, we need to identify the problem contained in the term \u201cmulata\u201d. Besides being a word naturalized by Brazilian society, it is a captive presence in the vocabulary of the hosts, journalists and reporters from the Globo broadcasting. The word of is of Spanish origin comes from \u201cmula\u201d or \u201cmulo\u201d (the masculine and feminine of \u2018mule\u2019): that that is a hybrid originating from a cross between species. Mules are animals born crossing donkeys with mares or horses with donkeys. In another sense, they are the result of the mating of the animal considered noble (equus caballus<\/em>) with the animal deemed second class (donkey). Therefore, it is a derogatory word indicating mesti\u00e7agem<\/em> (racial mixture or crossbreeding), impurity; an improper mixing that should not exist.<\/p>\n

Employed since the colonial period, the term was used to designate lighter skinned blacks, fruits of the rape of slaves by masters. Such a nomenclature has sexist and racist nature and was transferred to the Globeleza character, naturalized. The adjective \u201cmulata\u201d is a sad memory of the 354 years (1534-1888) of escravid\u00e3o negra<\/em> (black slavery) in Brazil…<\/p>\n

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A call for end of the \u201cGlobeleza Mulata\u201d: A Manifesto Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2016-02-08 Stephanie Ribeiro and Djamila Ribeiro Originally, “A Mulata Globeleza: Um Manifesto” from Agora \u00e9 que s\u00e3o elas (2016-01-29). The Globeleza Mulata is not a natural cultural event, but a performance that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,8413,459,8,6940,25],"tags":[17123,17122,22953,22951,22952,22116],"class_list":["post-45603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-communications","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-women","tag-black-women-of-brazil","tag-black-women-of-brazil-the-site-dedicated-to-brazilian-women-of-african-descent","tag-djamila-ribeiro","tag-globeleza-mulata","tag-rede-globo","tag-stephanie-ribeiro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45605,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45603\/revisions\/45605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}