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Resumen: El artículo analiza la obra de pintores santiagueros que tienen a la mujer negra en sus discursos con el objetivo de determinar el condicionamiento social de su representación plástica, tomando la obra de pintores desde una micro localización geográfica distante del centro cultural de la isla (Santiago de Cuba). Se aplicó el método iconográfico para el análisis de las obras y se emplearon técnicas de análisis documental y de recogida de información para arribar a las consideraciones aquí expuestas. El estudio, desde las coordenadas de los Estudios Culturales y la Sociología del Arte, conduce a reconocer que, aunque la representación del individuo de piel negra en la plástica cubana ha cambiado los códigos visuales a lo largo de más de tres siglos, aún persisten estereotipos femeninos y raciales en el imaginario nacional y esto es representado con mayor frecuencia en el microcircuito de las artes plásticas santiagueras. The article analyzes the work of santiago painters who have black women in their discourses with the aim of determining the social conditioning of their depiction, taking the work of painters from a micro-geographical location distant from the cultural centre of the island (santiago de cuba). the iconographic method was applied to the analysis of the paintings, and other techniques for analysing and collecting information were used to arrive at the considerations presented here. the study, from a cultural studies and sociology of art perspective, leads to the recognition that, although the depiction of the black skinned individual in cuban visual arts has changed its visual codes over more than three centuries, feminine and racial stereotypes persist in the national imaginary, and this is more frequent in santiago de cuba's art microcircuit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jean Emily Fairfax’s life (1920–2019) essentially comprised two careers – the first, as a Legal Defense Fund staffer during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and subsequent efforts to implement and preserve equity measures, and another in “retirement” as an elder stateswoman, donor, and shaper of ideas about Black philanthropy. Both careers reflected her unwavering commitment to championing a more equitable society, anchored in her belief in the transformative power of philanthropy. Drawing on oral history interviews and engagement with the histories of education and philanthropy, at the intersection of gender, race, and ageing, Fairfax’s story offers insights into the resilience and agency of older Black women who, having been engaged in earlier civil rights movements, continued to shape social change in their later years. Her activism and philanthropy were deeply intertwined, reflecting her unwavering belief in the possibility of justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThrough recovered biographies and unpublished archival papers, I examine the connection of two Black clubwomen, Frances Reynolds Keyser and Mary McLeod Bethune, who shared a modest ceremony that bonded them for life. I argue that their private relationship was deeper than they could credibly portray through their public image at the time, bound as they were by the strictures of respectability politics. Their cultivation of respectability was an irreplaceable asset in, and indeed a necessity of their work, but it also demanded the presentation of normative heterosexuality. In addition, I conducted a creative investigation of the archives to draw attention to their everyday lives and experiences in Daytona. Many Black women activists’ experiences do not conform to the white male-centric narrative ethos present and the assumption of heterosexuality is a dominant yet wholly inaccurate narrative on Black club women’s legacies and activism. Biographical recoveries can change, complicate, and enhance our understanding of these women’s relationships regarding their well-curated public personas as clubwomen. This study aims to provide an intellectual history of Black women through the club movement by putting biographical data front and center, especially by examining their own words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Experiencing the intersectionalities of a bisexual black woman from the countryside in the Amazon of Pará is reflecting on the structures of violence and belonging through the community that can build this experience. In view of this, this research aims to reflect on how the process of belonging works for a bisexual black woman who moves from the interior (Bragança-PA) to the capital (Belém-PA), starting from a decolonial and qualitative perspective and using it as a methodological instrument the writing of Conceição Evaristo. Therefore, it is worth recognizing that the territory and its contexts, such as cisheteronormative structures, have a significant impact on selfrecognition, as well as the presence of the community and aquilombamento have positive effects on processes of recognition and recovery of the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we work on discussions regarding the absences and stereotypical representations of women in art, especially Black women, based on concepts such as intersectionality, observing how issues of gender, race and class relate to art. To do this, as a case study we used the artist Yedamaria, a Bahian born in 1932 and died in 2016, she was a painter, engraver, teacher and authored a book. Yedamaria is one of the first names when it comes to the representation of Black women as artists in Brazil, reflecting black culture through colors and shapes in her works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article seeks to carry out an initial study to understand the relationships between the black women's empowerment movement through the aesthetics of their hair and the perception of these women about the recent expansion of the hair market for specific product lines for their hair types. Explanatory research with field survey was carried out. Initially, it recovers the marks of slavery on the bodies of the descendants of the enslaved, as well as the path that various movements took to build an appreciation of the traits and phenotype of women who are descendants of the diaspora. Afterward, to establish the basis for the discussion on the hair products market, relevant points about the role of consumption as a tool for social inclusion will be exposed. An online questionnaire was made and obtained 2872 responses that were analyzed using descriptive statistics. It was identified the importance that they give to their hair as a relevant factor for empowerment, reflecting a search for identity. Therefore, these women understand that the constructions of social movements such as black feminism and African womanism contribute to them; and it is easier to find products for their hair today than in the past, indicating the change made by the market. Social movements for the empowerment of black women have hair transition as one of their allies and have been gaining more and more adherents. Black women start to draw the attention of the beauty industry and organizations start to see them as the target audience for their products and campaigns. Even with capitalist motivation, these organizations start to contribute to a process of social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: we aim to understand how racism tangibly manifests in the lives of Black women, limiting their agency as they navigate social spaces through cultural expressions in the city of Belo Horizonte. Theoretical approach: we draw upon the concepts of structural racism and narcissistic pact, identifying convergences and divergences in the understanding of organizations as racialized spaces. Methods: we employ a qualitative approach within the context of ethnographic research, opting to conduct a semi-structured interview with Zuri, the president of an Afro block. As an analytical tool, we apply the concept of intersectionality. Results: we highlight that both structural racism and the narcissistic pact manifest in the daily life of organizations. Both phenomena are even more pernicious for Black women, particularly when they challenge a racist and sexist structure. Conclusions: the collective dimension of racism presents challenges to organizations and their stakeholders. This effect may lead individuals, especially organizational leaders who should be more committed to structural change, to hide behind the racism within their institutions and pacts among their team members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as is the case in most sub-Saharan African countries, women make a significant contribution to household income. However, they are traditionally excluded from the decision-making process regarding the allocation of household income, as only the man is considered the head and decision-maker. With modernization, we increasingly observe another form of household organization that takes into consideration the participation of women in decision-making in African households. This article analyzes the determining factors that contribute dynamically to this change. Starting with qualitative analysis, the binary logistic method was used to highlight the variables that explain the probability of a woman participating in the decision-making process that affects the couple's income. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is part of our master's research, which has proposed to investigate, from narratives of black women, the perceptions and meanings of their experiences as women, as well as to identify the markers of the difference in their experiences around femininity and what makes a black woman experience femininity in her own way. We rely on the methodological perspective of psychoanalytic research on social and political phenomena, understanding that our issue stems from a political-social impasse, which has been examined from the transferential relationship and the inseparability between theory, clinic and research. We have used the interview resource as an instrument for the production of analysis material. Thus, we have interviewed three black women, which were invited to share their stories and experiences as women. From the theoretical debate and from the material that have raised in the interviews, it was possible to identify the complexities of the process of becoming woman and black, from the markers scattered through the social bond, as it has subjective specificities. Furthermore, thinking about the meaning of the symbols used by black women and relying on another black woman to present these elements are directions that can impact these women's experience of femininity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Brazil, the telenovela has established itself as one of the most important products of television. Thus, it addresses the differences between social groups and disputes between them. The visibility for these groups that is built from this dynamic becomes a chance to promote their representation, when they see themselves as part of the nation. This study aims to understand the representation of Black women in the scenario of contemporary Brazilian telenovelas, focusing on Amor de Mãe (2019-2021). The research consisted of analyzing the protagonists of the first part of this narrative, Camila (Jéssica Ellen) and Vitória (Taís Araújo), based on the analytical category of controlling images (Collins, 2019), which unravels the logic that tries to justify the oppression experienced by these women. The results show that these images can be identified isolated and/or combined in the construction of these characters. At times, the telenovela plot questions these images; at others, it reinforces them.

The aim of the essay is to discuss an intergenerational transmission of family history and its impact on the process of becoming a Black woman in a racist society. The example chosen for analysis is the autobiography of bell hooks, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996), which is a story about girlhood. (B)ell hooks is a pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, an African-American scholar and writer whose childhood and adolescence were during the period of racial segregation and desegregation in the 1960s of the twentieth century. (B)ell hooks writes Bone Black to reflect on being a Black girl growing up in racially segregated American society in the 60s of the twentieth century. She shows the historical and political contexts of her growing up, however, it is the local community and intergenerational family ties that she places at the center of her process of becoming the woman: bell hooks. Relationships with women, particularly a relationship between grandmother and granddaughter are of great significance in this process. The essay begins with a brief summary of the biography of bell hooks and a description of Bone Black, with particular emphasis put on the author’s interand intragenerational relationships with women. Next, I will move on to discuss the intergenerational transmissions of family history and their impact on the process of becoming a woman. For this purpose, I will refer to the life story concept introduced by Daniel Bertaux (2016), and the notion of subjective resources created by Catherine Delcroix (1999, 2014), in order to discuss the importance of intergenerational transmission of life stories in the process of becoming the woman knowns as “bell hooks.”

This study aims to analyze the representation of black women in narratives by Conceição Evaristo. To do so, we worked with two texts by this author: Ponciá Vicêncio and Mary Benedita. In these narratives, we present how the characters associate themselves with a perspective of (re)existence in the face of the various setbacks that black women encounter. The analysis carried out allows us to conclude that the female characters depicted in Conceição Evaristo's fiction learn to resignify their experiences amidst shattered bonds of love and pain, asserting themselves as subjects despite their peripheral condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract: The goddess al-’Uzzā is one of the famous Arabian deities in the pre-Islamic era, whose name is also mentioned in the Qur'an (Najm:19). In some Islamic reports, the destruction of al-’Uzzā has been described in a wonderful way. While most of these traditions describe al-’Uzzā as an idol, in some of them, she appears in the form of a black woman with disheveled hair and is then killed by Muslim soldiers. The main questions of this study are as follows: What is the reason for this altered description and where is the origin of such a forgery? What are the Muslim authors’ reports trying to describe and how does this help to understand the values of deities in Islamic culture? Introduction Paying attention to the contexts of Islamic sources and studying the cultural atmosphere of the first Islamic centuries is a path opened to us in recent decades, the importance of which is gradually increasing. The use of historical analyses and new approaches to historiography based on the interaction between Islamic texts and their historical contexts can have important prospects in achieving a deeper understanding of the reports related to these sources. In the present research, this method has been used to study some Muslims’ reports about Arabian deities. According to early Islamic sources, the Prophet Muhammad marched on the surrounding areas and destroyed the temples and shrines of the idols after the conquest of Mecca. In the reports related to these events, the destruction of al-’Uzzā has been described in a strange way. According to these sources, al-’Uzzā is not just an idol, but in fact, a woman, who has appeared in a black and disheveled hair and who has been applauded by custodians and her guardian and destroyed by Muslim soldiers. The Prophet’s confirmation at the end of these reports is an important proof of such a description, which announces the permanent destruction of al-’Uzzā by killing this woman. However, these sources have previously introduced this goddess as a wooden or stone idol, which has consequently had no power of self-defense. In this research, these reports have been examined in order to clarify what has made the first Muslims create this imagery and forgery and who this woman has been. Materials & Methods The method used in the current study has been to read the Islamic reports with an inter-religious approach. In this method, we have specifically considered the comparative study of Islamic sources with Christian texts. Discussion of Results & Conclusions According to pre-Islamic literature, including the Bible and early Christians’ beliefs, it seems that the reports of Islamic sources about manifestation of al-’Uzzā in the form of a black woman have been influenced by the regional common beliefs and in particular, the Christians’ insight that Satan, often identified in association with the ancient deities, has been portrayed in black and more accurately, as an Abyssinian. Their purpose in this reconstruction has been to remove the veneration of the pagan deities forever just as the early Christians have used the same trick to eliminate the gods worshiped by their opponents. On this basis, the contexts of the reports narrated about al-’Uzzā can be approximately reconstructed as follows: By changing some Christians’ beliefs, the first Muslims have tried to associate al-’Uzzā as the most powerful and important goddess of Quraysh with a black woman in addition to introducing the satanic identity of this god of the pagans to show the defeat of authority in this community and the end of their field of activity with gods and goddesses forever. This is related to the common beliefs about al-’Uzzā as a woman with long hair or a virgin goddess or a goddess, who has taken part in wars. The other characteristics attributed to al-’Uzzā have been part of the beliefs of Arab pagans about deities before Islam has dominated the region. It seems that the Muslims’ commercial and political relations with Christians, which have increased, especially in the aftermath of the conquests, have made these authors take this adaptation strategy. Additionally, this fact can be specifically considered that the geographical region of ​​the Muslims, who have promoted and spread the reports in question, has been entirely tied to ​​Iraq area, the center of the Abbasid caliphate, which has had a lot of interactions with Christians. With this identification and imagery, Muslims seem to have confronted Christians, who have felt the need to create an identity for posterity, while this has motivated the development of such reports in Islamic sources.

This paper proposes to analyze the decolonial echoes in the short story "A escrava", by Maria Firmina dos Reis, released in 1887. The work is inserted in the idea of a fragmented identity (HALL, 2001) of the XIX century black woman lived by the character Joana and the character lady who by listening to the cries of the subaltern (SPIVAK, 2010) solidarizes with this and all black women who were treated by the society built by the oppressive colonialism (QUIJANO, 2005). The identity movement of the characters raises the following question: how does the work "A escrava" from the decolonial echoes highlights the stigmas caused to the identity of black women? To answer the problematization we will go through contributions of a decolonial feminism (LUGONES, 2010; VERGÈS, 2020), as well as the power of speech (RIBEIRO, 2017) given to Joana and the lady, when they raise their voices (HOOKS, 2019) to denounce the evils caused by the slave society. Therefore, this whole investigation process elucidates the pains caused to black women by the patriarchalist/slave society of the XIX century and reveals that Maria Firmina dos Reis already echoed a decolonial feminism (LUGONES, 2010) in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Where is the role of black women in Brazilian music today? This text highlights the music in the videoclip Tchau (2021, 3'07", directed by João Monteiro) by Gaby Amarantos, also featuring Jaloo. This exemplifies this critical-reflexive debate on dissidence and (mis)encounters, which emanate the contemporary. The latter makes use of contemporary studies, by stratifying paradoxes and contradictions in the field of culture to touch the productions of knowledge, subjectivity and information with recurrences of update and innovation. Of course, the methodological course brings the essay format to observe, describe and discuss some peculiar aspects exposed, visually, by circumstantial elements in the reading of the research. From the categories creativity, flexibility and versatility, it is important to promote cultural diversity, especially relating to gender and ethnicity-race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to problematize the racial issue of the housemaid character in Brazilian telenovelas. For this, we consider two plots aired on Globo, Avenida Brasil and A Regra do Jogo, both by author João Emanuel Carneiro. Four characters were analyzed, two black and two white, with the aim of contrasting their differences and identifying the reflexes of structural racism in their constructions. The methodology used, French semiotics, proved to be fruitful in allowing the observation of racist discourse in the narrative path and in the basic semantic oppositions of the characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article, black feminism is analyzed as an anti-racist tool and a form of contribution to education. Specialized literature of black women and decolonial education was used as a bibliographic base, as well as scientific articles were consulted, selected by searching the Scielo and Google Scholar databases. The study is based on the protagonism and resistance of black women and a means of understanding the formation of black feminism, extracting from this understanding the relevance of the decolonity of knowledge. Thus, situations of black women stand out not only in their daily struggle movements, but mainly in the line of intellectuality, as well as their place of speech and what this movement can contribute to Brazilian education

In this article, discusses the education and employment possibilities of work for black women in the ABC Paulista region, São Paulo, Brazil, between 1950 and 1960, from the discourse analysis in oral narratives of Life Stories, produced by the Oral History method. The main objective is to understand the construction of the identity of women in the context of exclusion and social discrimination in the region of ABC Paulista in the industrial development period, considering intersectionality between gender and race. It uses the concepts of memory and social identity for analysing six black women narratives, registered in 2005, when they are between 65 and 78 years old. Research had shown the sad reality of discrimination and exclusion experienced by these women under the still probable social influence of slavery, undestanding how the issue of gender and race take place in their intersectionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a brief reflection on black women, workers and domestic workers in Brazil in the midst of the new coronavirus pandemic. We analyze this situation through two current examples, having as a guide the works of the author Carolina Maria de Jesus. To develop the analysis, we used journalistic reports and an individual interview, in order to draw a parallel between two case studies: domestic work carried out in conditions similar to slavery X “legalized” domestic work, both guided by a structure of inequality social which allowed us to conclude that captivity, while understood as a social phenomenon, has much deeper roots of a multifaceted character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Food holds a wealth of symbols and meanings that cannot be transcribed only in the composition of nutrients. This article outlines the history of food in the city of Macaé, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the life narrative of black women, who are referred here as traditionalists. The immersion with this group of interviewees was built and made possible based on the theoretical and methodological referential of popular education. The prestige of orality is due to the importance that the oral language has in Africa and its diaspora. The valorization of black voices is due to the fact that this population does not have prestige in history, being always portrayed in a stigmatized way. When talking about food and cooking, the woman is focused because she is always reduced to the place of production and reproduction. In African religions, these same women have places of privilege and specific duties. Valuing Afro-Brazilian food and highlighting its importance for the city, these narratives are devices that express the collective memory and can function as an inventory capable of feeding back the actions of popular education in the field of university teaching, research and extension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada, Carolina Maria de Jesus portrays, in an autobiographical way, the daily life in the São Paulo favela between 1955 and 1960. Through the production of a diary and with precarious use of the standard written language, she tries to vent and expose the regrets and sadness of her life as a black woman from the favela. Thus, it is intended to investigate the extent to which Carolina's text is revealed, safeguarding its fictional character, as a source of research for understanding the historical-social reality experienced by black women and slums in Brazil. The qualitative bibliographic study was based on theoretical contributions from critics such as Raymond Williams (1969), Jaques Le Goff (2003) and Gayatri Spivak (2010). The result reveals that, despite misery and marginalization, black women can build a space in which they have a voice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose the analysis of key moments of two novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013) - and two short stories - "Jumping Monkey Hill" (2009) and "The thing around your neck" (2009) - in order to critically analyze situations in which female characters, in subalternized positions, are seen as less than human beings and placed in the condition of objects. The main goal is to examine the impacts of the characters objectification and hypersexualization represented in the fictional work of Chimamanda Adichie. We turn our attention to postcolonial cultural studies, which act as a starting point for the research and focus on the analysis of intercultural relations, in addition to the relations of power and domination developed from the contact among groups of different origins and practices. In fact, with the expansion of postcolonial studies, among others that promote the voice of the marginalized, a trajectory of rupture of historically consolidated paradigms is outlined. Adichiean stories are inserted in this context and have representations of lived experiences, complementing anthropological studies that propose to analyze how black women's relations with contemporary society take place. Therefore, concepts such as those by Hall (2005), Bhabha (2013) and Fanon (2008) are fundamental, as well as those of Davis (2016) and Lugones (2014). We conclude that the whole of the Adichiean work contributes to the relevance of literature as a motivation for questioning and vehicles of political, social, sexual and cultural activism. Adichie is situated in a group of contemporary authors who choose to engage through literature. Thus, debates about the condition of the Other leave the exclusively academic scope to reach other spheres, reaching those most interested in the themes addressed by the author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The goddess al-’Uzzā is one of the famous Arabian deities in the pre-Islamic era, whose name is also mentioned in the Qur'an (Najm:19). In some Islamic reports, the destruction of al-’Uzzā has been described in a wonderful way. While most of these traditions describe al-’Uzzā as an idol, in some of them, she appears in the form of a black woman with disheveled hair and is then killed by Muslim soldiers. The main questions of this study are as follows: What is the reason for this altered description and where is the origin of such a forgery? What are the Muslim authors’ reports trying to describe and how does this help to understand the values of deities in Islamic culture? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Social movements bear witness to the emerging conception of human rights on a global level, focused on daily practices to meet not only basic needs, but also effective and expressive needs, those that give a meaning and a place in the world to every human being. From thisobservation, the importance of the present study emerges as it addresses the contributions of the Fraternal Law meta-theory in the reframing of the black woman individual in Brazil. Thus, from the perspective of gender, violence and the periphery, as a research problem, the question is: what are the contributions of the Fraternal Law meta-theory in the resignification of the role of black women in Brazil? For the research, the deductive approach method and the bibliographic procedure method are adopted. The female body has been carrying with it the weight of a patriarchal and control culture that contributes to the removal of women from the space of equality, so we can see contributions from the Fraternal Law meta-theory in the re-signification of the woman individual, in this case the black woman from the periphery of the city, because it allows a resignification of humanity and the pact between peers. In this way, the woman from the periphery is inserted into the common space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I write from my perspective, the perspective of a Black Brazilian woman. From this perspective, I transpose the act of writing in order to survive (... and breathe). A piece of writing, writing that is laden with love, pain, daily experiences, and experiments. "Escrevivência" as writing from the experience of a Black Brazilian woman—sensibilities happen with/in my body in the encounter with the structures of the world. Subversive, insubordinate, and disobedient to the injustices of the world. This work believes that academia and research are potent in contributing to this struggle together with a subversive praxis and the strength of everyday micro‐practices. Take a breath we keep surviving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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