This paper brings together three sites of contemporary Portugal to search for the commonality in how black African identity is imagined and represented in Portuguese social space: a 1940s Nation-as-Empire theme park (Coimbra, central Portugal), a sixteenth-century black African slave burial site (Lagos, southern Portugal), and the present-day Alfragide police station (Lisbon metropolitan area). I argue that the three sites and subject matters, although separated by decades if not centuries, are all part of the same continuum of the imagined “absence of presence” of black African slavery in Portuguese social space. I also show that the proper understanding of any of the three is enhanced by contemplating the other two.

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我们中的他者：葡萄牙社会空间中非洲黑人身份的表现

本文汇集了当代葡萄牙的三个地点，以寻找在葡萄牙社会空间中如何想象和代表非洲黑人身份的共性：一个 1940 年代的国家作为帝国主题公园（科英布拉，葡萄牙中部），一个 16 世纪的非洲黑人奴隶墓地（葡萄牙南部拉各斯）和现今的阿尔法拉吉德警察局（里斯本大都市区）。我认为这三个地点和主题虽然相隔数十年甚至数百年，但都是葡萄牙社会空间中想象中的非洲黑人奴隶制“不存在”的同一连续体的一部分。我还表明，通过考虑其他两个，可以增强对这三个中的任何一个的正确理解。