RACE.ED Seminar with Osmundo Pinho, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)

In this RACE.ED seminar, Dr Osmundo Pinho examines how representation, specifically in images from the colonial imagination in Brazil, engenders political meanings, forging a grammar for the production and interpretation of Black bodies in the (post) colonial Brazilian horizon. Dr Pinho also addresses how colonial forms of meaning production, through representation, serve as a colonial epistemological device. 

This seminar was recorded in Portuguese - however, closed captions are available in both English and Portuguese. 

Osmundo Pinho is a Brazilian anthropologist and Professor at the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia in the old and beautiful colonial city of Cachoeira and PhD in Social Sciences by the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). He teaches in the graduate program in Ethnic and African Studies of the Universidade Federal da Bahia (Pós-Afro) and is an associate researcher at the Instituto de Estudos da Africa da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. In 2014 he was a visiting researcher in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. In pre-pandemic 2020 he was a Richard E. Greenleaf Fellow at the Tulane University Latin American Library. He is the author of “Antinegritude: O Impossível Sujeito Negro na Formação Social Brasileira” co-edited with João H. Costa Vargas and “Cativeiro: Antinegritude e Ancestralidade” (forthcoming).