Starting from an analysis of the TEN (the Black Experimental Theater) activities in Rio de Janeiro, between 1949 and early 1950, the article investigates the reception in Brazil of the Francophone's ideas of Negritude. With such purpose, it traces the origins and the political context of the Black theater as well as the figures responsible for the reception of such ideas. In so doing, it seeks to show the innovative and heterogeneous character of such appropriations, with special emphasis on the essays of sociologist Guerreiro Ramos in the 1950's.
Black Experimental Theater; Francophone negritude; Guerreiro Ramos; Black movements