Somos o que somos, cores e valores : a apropriação do território periférico como contra-dispositivo de racialidade, na obra do Racionais MC's

Abstract

This work aims to understand how, by appropriating the peripheral territory, the work of the group Racionais MC's mobilizes a counter-device (Guimarães-Silva, 2023), which incites movements that dispute the action of the raciality device (Carneiro, 2023). To this end, we theoretically address the relationship between territoriality, marginal narratives, forms of subjectivity production and resistance in contexts of social control in an attempt to examine how art and resistance are produced by black masculinities. Methodologically, we decoupaged the documentary “Racionais: Das Ruas de São Paulo pro Mundo” and organized the information based on three axes of analysis: i) constructed subjectivities (Carneiro, 2023; Fanon, 2008); ii) political empowerment (Collins, 2019); and iii) fabrication of their stories (Hartman, 2019). From the analyses forged in our work, we understand the work of Racionais MC's as a mechanism that acts as a counter-device that articulates three points: i) the contradictions that occur in the social and relational complexities in which the rappers are inserted; ii) the importance of the representativeness they promote with their music; iii) and the constant place of outsider within (Collins, 2016; Guimarães-Silva, 2023) occupied by them at different times in their careers.