Raça, gênero e classe na formação sócio-histórica do Brasil colonial: indicações das relações conceituais em produções científicas sobre a mulher negra

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the indications of conceptual relations on the categories race, gender and class in articles published on black women in the historical period of Colonial Brazil. The methodology used was bibliographic and qualitative research with the application of decolonial epistemology, which made it possible to criticize Eurocentric colonial thinking and problematize the categories of race, gender and class, associated with the history of black women since the period of Colonial Brazil. For that we chose to access the articles published and made available in the database of the CAPES journal portal. In this way the path of the socio-historical formation of Colonial Brazil was first constructed, from the moment the Brazilian lands were discovered by Portuguese Europeans, based on explanations by important historians such as Boris Fausto (2006), Francisco de Assis Silva (1992), Florestan Fernandes (1972). In this sense, the focus was maintained on the most outstanding experiences involving the intended categories. Therefore, we analyzed three articles located on the CAPES journal portal, which maintained a relationship with the criteria selected by the research. To analyze the data, the perspective of decolonial thinking by Catherine Walsh (2014).