Um outro pacto civilizatório : ecoando vozes de mulheres negras

Abstract

This work aims to enable the representation of black women in society, through their stories and experiences. To this end, nine black women were chosen to be the protagonists of this writing, they are: (I) Antonieta de Barros; (II) Aparecida Sueli Carneiro Jacoel; (III) Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos; (IV) Geni Mariano Guimarães (V) Jaci dos Santos better known as Thereza Santos; (VI) Lélia Gonzalez; (VII) Maria Beatriz Nascimento; (VIII) Maria da Conceição Evaristo; (IX) Maria Firmina dos Reis. The highlighted characters were selected to fulfill the general objective because they share the same nationality, gender and race. Furthermore, the selection did not occur randomly, as in addition to being crossed by the categories already mentioned, they intertwine through teaching, teaching and activism. . Thus, by bringing women writers, teachers and activists to the forefront of this writing, we seek to remove them from subalternization and silencing, placing them in the spotlight. In this way, the life stories of black women studied in this work will be critically analyzed based on black feminist epistemology, composed by authors such as Carla Akotirene (2019), Cida Bento (2022), Djamila Ribeiro (2018) and Grada Kilomba (2019 ), since I will not just announce them, I will, above all, discuss their stories, but not in an attempt to judge, minimize or label them, but rather to darken the discussions and bring their world perspectives to light surface, the world of black women by black women. Thus, this is a qualitative and explanatory research based on Cultural Studies. Thus, it is thinking about the transformative power of writing, and about black women who move structures through their actions and production of knowledge that this writing proposes another civilizing pact, in which writing shows itself as a path and a direction. Where the marginalization of black women is overcome and their experiences and productions are echoed, refuting years of silencing and violence.