Como se fosse bumerangue: Frente negra brasileira no circuito transatlântico

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine how the FNB (the Black Brazilian Front)-the most notable Afro-Brazilian organization of the first decades of the republican regime-was depicted in the Chicago Defender, the Black newspaper with wider circulation in the USA. The central concern is to show that the Chicago Defender produced a celebrative discourse about the Frente Negra Brasileira, inflating statistics and information, and engaging in laudatory exaggerations. In spite of its problematic and paradoxical character, such discourse is important because it reveals the interlocutions, interdependencies, and connections established by Blacks on both hemispheres and, at the same time, allows a reconfiguration of the role of Brazil in the Afro-Atlantic circuit.