O(s) 13 DE MAIO CLUB AND THE BLACK POPULATION IN JATAÍ: INTERFACES BETWEEN EXHIBITION, MEMORY AND MUSEUM

interfaces entre exposição, memória e museu

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Historical Museum of Jataí - Francisco Honório de Campos (MHJ), founded in 1994, has contributed to the construction of identities, memories and stories that go back to Jataí's past. Among the productions carried out, we consider that there is a relevant number of exhibitions whose purpose is to narrate the Local History. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyze the exhibition “Clube 13 de Maio e os Negros e Negras na História de Jataí (2019)”, and thus, to investigate the memories, silences, experiences, stereotypes and contributions of black subjects constructed in the exhibition. From the cut made, we can, then, place the importance of Clube 13 de Maio for the city and also for the local black population, having its memory (re)constructed in the form of a museum exhibition. In addition to these factors, museums play a role aimed at preserving memories, becoming an institution capable of performing the role of the State as an agent in guaranteeing the preservation of memories. However, the narratives constructed in these spaces seem to privilege the white, “pioneer” and elite population. Thus, it is understood that the preservation of certain memories is the result of political actions, whose purpose is to define what to remember and what to forget (CUNHA, 2017, p.80). That is, it is necessary that the places of memory (NORA, 1993) reflect on the production and appreciation of the experiences and positive trajectories of black living beyond the notions of subjugation, inferiority or reduction of the life experiences of the black population to the context of slavery.