Exhibition ‘El Negro de la Riba and other myths to scare children’.
from 23 November to 1 March
Cultures from all over the world have used legends to transmit values to children, often through fear. This exhibition, the result of a collaboration between the Casa de la Barceloneta 1761 and the Ethnological and World Cultures Museum, aims to reflect on these stories. Legend has it that the ‘Negro’ took away children who did not listen to their parents.
The Negro de la Riba was a figurehead that supposedly represented an African warrior at the head of a ship built in the 18th century, although later studies revealed that it really represented a North American Indian. Traditionally, in Europe, the representation of the black African has been full of prejudices that today must be revised from a colonial viewpoint.
Until the beginning of the exhibition at CB1761, the figure of the Negro de la Riba has been around different places in the neighbourhood: La Xarxaire (Ps. Juan de Borbón, 11), the Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures (c/ Moncada, 12).
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