Provocações museológicas: leituras da exposição "MAFRO pela vida, contra o genocídio da juventude negra" - Salvador/BA (2015)

Abstract

This research highlights the contributions of Museology to discuss issues related to Human Rights. We started from theoretical backgrounds of the Social Museology to investigate the young black genocide by the light of reflectance promoted by exhibition "MAFRO pela vida, contra o genocídio da juventude negra” held at the Universidade Federal da Bahia’s (UFBA) Museo Afro-brasileiro [Federal University of Bahia’s, Afro-brazilian Museum], in SalvadorBA.The practice of genocide violates the individual rights in physical and symbolic ways, for instance of the massacres in Candelaria, in Rio de Janeiro, and Cabula, in Salvador. In museological spaces can happen the silencing of blacks and their representation may be stereotypical or exotic. We consider museum as a space of resistance if his speech is committed to the reduction of social injustices and inequalities, issues viewed in conjunction among Museology, Human Rights and Social Movements, taking as a case study the scenes and behind the scenes of brief exposure promoted by MAFRO in 2015 which highlighted violence against black youth.