Minha cor é o Brasil? o desmonte administrativo e simbólico da Fundação Cultural Palmares

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze how the actions and speeches of the former President of the Palmares Cultural Foundation – FCP, Sérgio do Nascimento Camargo,combined with the phenomenon of Bolsonarism experienced by Brazil, imply denialism and omission of the fight against racism in the country, reflecting in an administrative and symbolic dismantling of that institution. In this sense, we carried out an analysis of concrete institutional actions that sought to weaken the main federal institution for promoting Afro-Brazilian culture and combating racism in the country. To do so, we carried out research on the institution's official website in order to identify official documents such as Ordinances, Normative Instructions, Legislation, Official Notes to investigate the way in which the administrative and symbolic dismantling of the FCP is taking place. In addition, we conducted interviews with two Quilombola leaders from Pará to understand how the dismantling of the foundation impacted the daily life of the territories with regard to access or not to social rights. Methodologically, for research analysis, we used the technical steps of content analysis, as follows: organization of information; reading of the material; exploration and maturation of the corpus; treatment of the results, inference and interpretation about how the then management of the FCP promoted an administrative and symbolic dismantling of the institution and its reflections in the daily life of two Quilombola Communities in Pará. From the critical reading of the documents and interviews, we organized the main points of discussion in categories of interpretative analysis. The results of the research show that the management of the institution moved in the opposite direction to the policy of valuing Afro-Brazilian culture, stimulating racism in its various ramifications and aversion to the elements of Afro- Brazilian valuation. Therefore, we understand that the institutional actions of the management of Sérgio Camargo and his team acted in the opposite direction to the Foundation's Internal Regulations, attacking daily, in social networks and institutionally, everything that was related to our Afro-Brazilian heritage.