In Belém do Pará the assumption that we are a morena city for a moreno people prevails, with
increasing illocutionary strength. This assumption, the result of a common sense that seeks to
classify/categorize the ethno-racial mixtures produced, since the colonial context, has increasingly
become a local discursive construction to accommodate the diverse and often opposite interpretations
about our identity. The analysis proposed here, allows us to reflect on the construct of morenidade,
this violent miscegenated identification that for a long time has been presented as a central cultural
feature of the city's identity, as a local discursive construction, a representation of strong sensoryvisual appeal, whose historical-cultural interpretation is, at the same time, the result of struggle and
negotiation between groups and social classes, of resistance and the imposition of forces in struggle
for the classification of alterities produced alongside Amazonian ethnic racial miscegenations.
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