Mulato Tragidy

Composed between 2018 - 2019, MULATO TRAGIDY is directly inspired by the works of Franz Fanon, more specifically "Black Skins, White Masks" and Lilly Swarts's "O Espetáculo das Raças". Both books had a significant impact during the compositional process, as they offered reasoning, wakening and understanding behind a 2 decade long hurting of internalized hatred and scars of direct racism. The EP sonically investigates the narrow spaces between branquitude and negritude in Brasil, self diagnosing the position of the Pardo, Mulato and Mestiço body in the project plan of populational whitening that occurred in Brasil since the XXth century. The EP takes as departure the term "tragic mulatto" which is present in American literature and oral tradition, as a way to self diagnose and investigate the confusion and gaslighting process that was forced upon the black and pardo population in Brasil as form of colonial colorist strategy. © jovemdeu$, 2019