2026-02-122026-02-122025-09-15SANTOS, Heloiá Carneiro dos, Imagens de Controle: A invisibilização das comunidades quilombolas. 2025. Não paginado. Trabalho de Curso (Bacharel em Comunicação Social) - Faculdade de Comunicação Social, Instituto de Letras e Comunicação, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, 2025. Disponível em:. Acesso em:.https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/9201This work discusses the representations of quilombola communities in the media and in academic productions, based on Patricia Hill Collins’ theory of controlling images. The research seeks to understand how these images reinforce historical stereotypes that limit social understanding of quilombos, their cultures, and their ways of life. To this end, the study examines the concepts of quilombola communities, analyzing their historical and political roles in Brazil and the construction of the images imposed on them. At the same time, it questions the intentionality of these representations and how different photographs, although distinct, carry similar purposes: reducing quilombolas to stereotypes of poverty, old age, manual labor, or Afro religiosity, while rendering invisible the diversity of beliefs, youth, and political achievements. Thus, the analysis points out that controlling images are not merely visual representations but rather devices of power that sustain social and racial hierarchies, contributing to the symbolic erasure of quilombos. It concludes that disputing these images and questioning the meanings they carry is part of the contemporary quilombola struggle, which is not limited to physical land but also extends to the symbolic and political territory of representation.Acesso AbertoQuilombosImagem de controleComunicaçãoRepresentações sociaisPoderControlling imagesCommunicationSocial representationsPowerCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAOTrabalho de Curso - Graduação - MonografiaAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazil