O RAP como documento na luta antirracista: música, memória e educação antirracista no Brasil contemporâneo

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis analyzes rap as a historical document in the anti-racist struggle in contemporary Brazil, articulating music, memory, and anti-racist education. Based on the expansion of the concept of document and the understanding of song as a historical source, the study discusses rap as a language of denunciation of racial oppression and as a critical reading of Black and peripheral experiences. The research draws on authors from historiography, music history, and anti-racist education, especially Jacques Le Goff, José Geraldo Vinci de Moraes, Marcos Napolitano, Peter Burke, Maurício Silva, Aparecida de Jesus Ferreira, Sales Augusto dos Santos, and Souza, Oliveira, and Farias. The analysis focuses on the works of Racionais MC’s, Sabotagem, and Djonga, whose songs highlight the centrality of rap in the formulation of narratives about structural racism, police violence, incarceration, trauma, territory, and knowledge production. It is concluded that rap should not be read as a mere reflection of reality, but as a historical and political elaboration of social experience, constituting a relevant document for the anti-racist struggle and for the construction of anti-racist education.