I Marcha de Mulheres Negras a Brasília: o que a teoria feminista negra tem a ver com isso?

Abstract

This research is part of the studies of race and gender relations that have debated on the political participation of black women in Brazil. Pretend to renew these studies based on the collective action of the Network of Black Women of the Northeast (RMNN) during the process of building the 1st March of Black Women in Brasília against Racism, Violence and for the Good Life (2011-2015) and in a theoretical framework that fits the assumptions of contemporary sociological theories, decolonial black feminist. It is from this From that meeting a critical theoretical and ethodological dialogue is constructed between alternative (perspective) approaches organized from the paradigm of intersectionality, decoloniality and Afrocentricity. In the first case, the intersectionality between race, patriarchy and other oppressive axes is privileged, offered especially by authors of the size of Gonzalez (1982), Davis (1982) and Crenshaw (1989). In the second, he theorizes the idea of frontier as racial, cultural and political aspects, resulting from the power relations and locus of enunciation, more specifically, in terms of what we capture in the work of authors such as Mohanty (1984), Anzaldúa (1987), Gonzalez (1988ª) and Bhabha (1994). In the third, we turn to this tradition, which theoretically restores the anti-racist struggle in the African diaspora, proposing a theory centered on the life stories of black people, criticizing the uniformly negative controlling images, defined by the colonizer, widely debated by Assante (1980) , Nascimento (1974), Gonzalez (1982), Collins, (1990), Carneiro (2001). Therefore, the outline of the analysis of the construction process of the I MMNB is referenced in the culture and tradition of struggle of Afro-descendants and Africans for overcoming the inequalities imposed by racism and sexism. A descriptive panel of the four-year journey of collective articulation of the NMRN, identifying its contributions to the formulation of a decolonial black feminist thought, as an expression of the Brazilian black feminist praxis. It seeks to highlight the relationship between collective action, based on own experiences and critical Afro-American-Latin Brazilian thinking. A study that put researchers and activists side by side, in a true crossroads and dialogical relationship, aiming at analyzing the constitution of a decolonial black feminist conception in the social, political and epistemic action of black Brazilian women.