Co-producing memory of racism in interracial conjugality

Abstract

Brazilian racial history is shaped by the silencing and denial of racial violence, generating a trauma that perpetuates itself in the social, subjective and relational fields. This article is a theoretical study based on bibliographic methodology, aiming to discuss Freudian concepts of representation and memory, shedding light on the possibility of legitimizing and producing memory of racism through Black-White interracial conjugality. We believe that the denial of Brazilian racism through the construction of the myth of racial democracy has created a social denial that perpetuates the traumatic effect of racism on subjectivities, which can be transmitted intersubjectively in the space of conjugality. We argue that the possibility of making space for racial issues within interracial conjugality enables the elaboration of these contents, highlighting the creative and transformative function of conjugality. Thus, the interracial conjugality becomes a space for the co–production of memory about racism and painful experiences linked to race.