Views on Power: The New Political Agency of the Brazilian Black Movement (2004-2021)

Abstract The article argues that black resistance in the post-abolition period underwent innumerable transformations, which have only been perceived by historiography since its renewal in terms of focus and perspectives. With regard to black agency, we note a change in the framework of social mobilizations at the end of the 1970s. Starting from the scenario opened at the end of the 1990s, the previous struggle began to make use of new forms of antiracist struggles, with higher education being one of the main focuses of attention and strategic line of action, in the sense of overcoming inequalities; a path that ended with the implementation of racial quotas (2004). This has substantially altered the racial political agenda in the country, resulting in the reconfiguration of black agency, noted by the growing number of racial themes in academic production, as well as the emergence of a publishing market focused on racial themes.