"Faz parte da família": contradições do trabalho doméstico remunerado, uma narrativa a partir da memória de quartinhos de empregada

Abstract

The object of this dissertation is to study the relationship between paid domestic work, black women, and racism. The central objective is to critically reflect on the historical trajectory of this profession, which is largely made up of black women, whose access to labor rights occurred very late. Since the beginning of colonization, the enslaved black woman had a socially devalued place in the tasks of reproduction of life, determined by the sexist and racist division of labor imposed by the western pattern of power that came to establish itself here. In the theoretical development of chapters 1, 2 and 3, I used bibliographical and documental research and official data from Federal Government agencies. In the development of the last chapter, I combined Conceição Evaristo's Escrevivência method and the autoethnography method, employed by Silvio Matheus in his thesis, to reproduce accounts of the experience of suffering and contradiction lived by domestic workers with whom I have had and still have close ties since childhood. In the practical development, I used the Escrevivência method, based on the work of Conceição Evaristo combined with autoethnography, collecting accounts of my own experience and of the domestic workers who are/were part of my life. The data is analyzed based on the research of Lélia Gonzaléz, Abdias Nascimento, Clóvis Moura, Silvio de Almeida, Neusa Santos Souza and other authors who denounce Brazilian structural racism and its institutional and everyday effects. In this way, it is hoped to contribute to the production of antiracist public policies.