The Portrayal of Racial Bias in Bacurau (2019)

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Northeast Brazil, Bacurau, Whiteness, Racism

Abstract

This paper addresses the portrayal of racial bias against northeastern Brazilians in the film Bacurau (2019). The white-centred racial dynamics involving Northeastern Brazilians, a Southeastern Brazilian couple, and a group of US-Americans and German foreigners exposes two conflicting notions of whiteness: a local one, within the long-standing Southeast/Northeast Brazil divide, and a global one, opposing Global South and Global North.

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Henrique Gomes, University of Hong Kong

Henrique Gomes is a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). His area of interest is Brazilian film and literature, with a focus on racialization, epistemic decolonization, and epistemology of resistance. He is a scholarship holder of the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPF), granted by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, as well as the HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship (HKU-PS), granted by HKU. As part of his PhD duties, Henrique works as a tutor in the field of Latin American studies, at HKU, since 2020.

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2023-05-04

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GOMES, H. The Portrayal of Racial Bias in Bacurau (2019). Tensões Mundiais, [S. l.], v. 19, n. 39, p. 69–88, 2023. Disponível em: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/tensoesmundiais/article/view/10133. Acesso em: 20 may. 2024.

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Vol. 19 No. 39 (2023): World Tensions

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