FESTAS PRETAS EM BELÉM. PERFORMANCES IDENTITÁRIAS E POLÍTICAS NA FESTA AFRONTO

The article reflects on the relationship between social identification and the empowerment of black youth from the observation of a "black party" in Belem do Para. A black party is a party organized by black youth and for black youth, marked by identity valorization and by the construction of ethical, political and aesthetic references committed to social criticism and to the ethnic resignification of the African diaspora. In a way, these parties can be understood as an identity performance, associated with urban processes of ethnogenesis and recognition claim. The article discusses the social processes present in it from three elements - style, music and body (HALL, 2006) - and seeks to reflect on the political dynamics present in the performative formation of “social plateaux” (CASTRO; CASTRO, 2017).