A cor e a fúria: uma análise do discurso racial dos racionais MC’s

Abstract

Having, as a justification, the importance of the rap group Racionais MCs in the Brazilian music scene, in addition to the strong esteem that this group would enjoy before both the so called hip-hop movement and by the youth from “peripheral” communities around the country, this paper presents, among its objectives, the need to understand the fundamentals and the modes of expression of the racial discourse given by the rap group. Therefore, this paper sought, at first place, to present a history of racism in the West. It was when this paper highlighted different derogatory ways in which the black, especially Brazilian, was represented over time. Then this paper tried to point out the most obvious fundamentals of the São Paulo rap group’s speech, among them the reading Mano Brown had the autobiography of the American black leader Malcolm X. This paper also sought to demonstrate, beyond the socio-economic context that would have allowed the emergence of a group such as Racionais, the factors by which this same group explain the possibility of a “guy” considered “peripheral” perceive himself as being involved with the “world crime” – even if those factors would cost the rap group the most severe criticism. This paper tried to discuss, finally, the possibility of Mano Brown and his group make a commitment, even through their music, to promote a “revolutionary” transformation in Brazilian society.