This project explores how Afro-Peruvian women narrate what it means to be Black through documentary film. Centering their voices, it approaches these films as audiovisual archives where lived experience, memory, and identity are articulated in response to Peru’s racial and gendered inequalities. Rather than treating Blackness as a fixed category, this project understands it as something produced through everyday life, shaped by history, and expressed through narrative, embodiment, and cultural practice.
Guided by the question “¿Qué cosa es ser negra?”, this project traces multiple, interconnected answers: to be Afro-Peruvian is to confront racism and its denial, to live within conditions shaped by labor and inequality, to resist through art and embodied expression, and to imagine new forms of belonging within the nation. Together, these narratives challenge dominant representations and position Afro-Peruvian women as producers of knowledge about Blackness, identity, and community in Peru.
"Ser afroperuana" is to face racism and denial
"Ser afroperuana" is to live through labor and survival
"Ser afroperuana" is resisting through art and rhythm
"Ser afroperuana" is to imagine a new nation