Article
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
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oai:doaj.org/article:e578c7a495ce40f7857404b1378e5450>
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DOI: <
10.1590/s0104-71832022000200003>
Abstract
Summary La Fiesta de la Patria Gaucha is a traditional event held annually in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. In October 2018, the launch of the afiche calling for its 33th edition unveiled a controversy based on an image produced for the occasion on which a woman afro amamantated a white baby in colonial or post-colonial times. The debate had a national dimension and was at the heart of mass media; it was triggered in multiple directions and included a multiplicity of actors, namely: concerning Afro-descendant social organisations, authorities at the first and second levels of government, representatives of political parties, as well as those associated with the authorship of the work. The complex structure of conflicting interpretations around the existence of a racist image is that I carry out an analysis of racial and gender relations in the country’s readings.