Anúncios publicitários: representação de mulheres negras e racismo na perspectiva da análise crítica do discurso

Abstract

This research aims to demonstrate that the texts of national and international advertisements diffused in the media convey a racist appeal in the representation of black women and how, implied or otherwise, prejudice is manifested by the linguistic materiality and imagery. The corpus consists of five commercials, conveyed in print and/or television with examples of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, selected by portraying black and white women differently. The advertisements are: N.K Fairbank Company (1860), Benetton (1991/92), Sony (2006), Dove (2011) and Bombril (2012). The theoretical foundation supports itself mainly on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), from the work of Norman Fairclough (2001), based on the category of interdiscursivity. I also apply the gender studies by Lauretis (1994) and Nicholson (2000), the postulates about racism by Van Dijk (2008), the propositions on media by Chauí (2010), the techniques of image analysis by Joly (2010) and Thompson´s concept of ideology (1995). The research results confirm the hypothesis, that is, they demonstrate that all analyzed advertisements feature verbal and visual texts that make up a typical construct of discourse steeped in racism and in the sovereingty of the white women. This enables the display of discriminatory practices at the service of the elite that values the white race and makes explicit the meanings that maintain and reproduce ethnic prejudice by perpetuating racism