As Helenas de Manoel Carlos: uma leitura sobre o personagem de Taís Araújo

Abstract

The following work addresses and reflects the structural racism present in the works of the novelist author Manoel Carlos, based on the soap opera Viver A Vida (2009) which had the actress Taís Araújo as the first black protagonist to interpret a role of this magnitude in the band the prime time of Rede Globo. We will have as main basis the scene of chapter 55, when Helena, a black woman, kneeling, is slapped in the face of Tereza (Lília Cabral), a white woman, in the middle of Dia da Consciência Negra, indicating the naturalization of scructural racism that always was present in Brazil and how this panorama had repercussions in the country, bringing to people the need for change and an end to racial prejudice on TV.