“Um saravá pra folia”: o carnaval da Grande Rio como enfrentamento à ascensão do racismo religioso no Rio de Janeiro em 2020

Abstract

This work, initially, has the proposal to trace the origins and antecedents of the Escolas de Samba in the city of Rio de Janeiro, passing through the Grandes Sociedades, the Rancho, the homes of the “samba aunts” and the parades in the Marquês de Sapucaí. As a central point, I intend to analyze the 2020 theme of the Acadêmicos do Grande Rio, entitled “Tatalondirá: o canto do Caboclo no Quilombo de Caxias”, the community context in which it was developed and how it is inserted in the struggle to face racism religious in Rio de Janeiro in the same year. In addition, this work positions the Escolas de Samba at the center of the debate on the construction of a system of law that is built from other bases and is responsible for preserving memory and protecting vulnerable groups under attack in recent years. The example used is that of the legislative decree to protect the terreiro (a Candomblé temple) of Joãozinho da Goméia after the Grande Rio carnival. Concepts such as the critical theory of race and the carnivalization of law are mobilized to think about the possibilities of approximation between the legal universe and that of samba.