%0 Journal Article %T O protesto negro no Brasil contemporaneo (1978-2010) %A Rios %A Flavia %J Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Pol¨ªtica %D 2012 %I Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contempor?nea, CEDEC %R 10.1590/S0102-64452012000100003 %X the street protest is, in this article, the privileged analytical unit to study the political history of brazilian black movement. the analysis includes the political process since its inaugural act - which would open the curtains of a new cycle of mobilization in the nest of struggles in a democratic society strongly mobilized against dictatorship - to the institucionalization of its demands and its political leaders, who are now agents of the racial equality at the instituted public power. %K black movement %K protest %K democratization %K collective identity. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-64452012000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en