Taking Down and Erecting Statues and Monuments: Memory, Ancestors and Self-Construction in Guadeloupe / Caribbean

Taking Down and Erecting Statues and Monuments: Memory, Ancestors and Self-Construction in Guadeloupe / Caribbean

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The article presents practices and perspectives of political and cultural associations in Guadalupe / Caribbean, especially the CIPN (International Committee of Peuples Noir), which involves the RESPIRA CLEANSE overthrow and construction of statues and monuments, as well as other performances around these objects.The members of these associations, defining themselves mostly as afro-descendants, do what they call self-repair, varied actions, in view of the continuous history of extermination, violence, submission and assimilation to which their ancestors and themselves are subjected, for rediscovered and rebuilt as afroguadalupenses.For this, recognition, Boys Hooded Flannel rehabilitation, honor and make present ancestors are fundamental aspects.

The erection of statues and monuments, the multiple actions and performances around them, as well as the overthrow of objects related to a predominantly Eurocentric history, are part of these processes, and highlight other aspects of the discussion about public history and memory.