Chamada para Publicação - Vol. 17, n° 2

The historical formation of Brazil was marked by slavery. Since the 16th century, black men and women were brought to Brazil against their will to be used as labor in the urban and rural economy. The enslavement of black bodies occurred all over the world due to the opposition of the black body to the white body, which was rated as inferior, abhorred, excluded. As Achille Mbembe (2018), Cameroonian philosopher states, the black body is humiliated and deeply dishonored in the order of modernity. The black is the only human being whose body was transformed into an object and the spirit into a commodity. Even after the liberation of the slaves in 1888 - the result of the resistance actions of the enslaved and the struggles of the abolitionist movement - the black and brown Brazilian population still suffers from the denial of basic rights and inequality in the income distribution. Thus, it is possible to discuss the relationship between blacks and the spaces they occupied/occupy in our society.
The edition 17.2 of Espacialidades Journal brings to the public the dossier Black bodies and spaces: struggle and representativeness in history, which focuses on works that value the historical experience of black people, their struggles, memories and history. We have the interest to receive works that emphasize social, aesthetic, sexual, religious, legal, economic, philosophical, educational, gender and political and symbolic power approach through a perspective of ethnic-racial relations. This dossier serves as a driving force for reflection on racism, slavery, post-abolition and the teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian culture and history. Our focus is publishing works with themes showing the role of black men and women in different social contexts, highlighting the ability of resistance and to confront.
The second volume of 2021 of Espacialidades Journal intends to publish articles that deal with the experiences of black people and their role as protagonists in their own history, trying to highlight the perspective of space through narrative, language, intellectuality, biography and art. We emphasize that this dossier is not limited to Brazil, and values collaborations that explore and investigate other spatial interactions in the Atlantic World.
It will also be accepted articles that meet the scope of the journal, concerning spatial concepts (territory, space, place, landscape, displacement, domain, border, horizon, among others) and their multiple relationships with time and human actions. Moreover, it will be accepted: reviews, interviews, translations and transcriptions from sources that emphasize the spatial categories.