According to Conceição Evaristo (2009), in an article entitled “Literatura Negra: uma p...

According to Conceição Evaristo (2009), in an article entitled “Literatura Negra: uma poética de nossa afro-brasilidade”, Afro-Brazilian literature portrays the bodies of black people in a positive humanized manner, even when they are forced to live under dehumanizing circumstances. Similarly, the images 1 and 2 show black Brazilian men working under inadequate conditions, and yet they are standing up with