Movimento Negro em Alagoas.

The Movimento Negro Contemporâneo (MNC) [Contemporary Black Movement] engaged in different kinds of political action in the struggle for the valorization of culture, aesthetics and the work of black women and black men. In the following years after the installation of the businesscivil- military dictatorship in 1964, this movement apparently sought to form a network of anti-racist strategies, in an attempt to criticize the ideology of racial democracy. In this context, the Movimento Negro Unificado (MNU) [Unified Black Movement] was created, an important organization of the MNC, also responsible for articulating the struggles against racial inequality and against the ideology of racial democracy in several regions of Brazil, as it articulated the debate on gender, race and class. Besides that, in the period from 1980 to 2000, in the state of Alagoas, the Comissão Pastoral da Terra de Alagoas (CPT / AL) [Pastoral Land Commission of Alagoas State], the Associação Cultural Zumbi (ACZ) [Zumbi Cultural Association], the Agentes de Pastoral Negros (APNs) [Black Pastoral Agents], the Programa de Ações Afirmativas da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (PAAE/ UFAL) [Affirmative Action Program of the Federal University of Alagoas], the Núcleo de Identidade Étnico-Racial [Ethnic-Racial Identity Center], the Fundação Municipal de Ação Cultural de Maceió [Maceió City Cultural Action Foundation], among other organizations, which articulated the discussion on the racial issue in some social movements and black organizations in that state. This paper, therefore, aims to discuss on the basis of bibliographic research, how the racial issue and the issue of fighting the ideology of racial democracy were present in the MNC and MNU, as well as in some social movements and black organizations in the state of Alagoas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]