Associativismo negro, redes de solidariedade e protagonismo das mulheres negras: um estudo sobre as lutas urbanas no bairro Santa Cândida, em Juiz de Fora, nos anos 1980

Abstract

In this dissertation, we consider that the roots of racism and the enslavement of the black population are inextricably linked to colonialism and the expansion of capitalism in the 16th century. The racial division between whites and blacks, between supposedly superior and supposedly inferior, founded, in modernity, a “form of coloniality power”. (QUIJANO, 2005,p. 118). Since then, in Brazil, the black population has been subordinated to forms of oppression and misery that, at various times, have put their survival at risk. In this sense, the object of this study is the leading role of black women in associations, mobilizations and solidarity networks established as forms of resistance by the black population throughout history. For this study, we chose to focus on the leading role of black women in religious brotherhoods during slavery, in the formation of survival networks in the post-abolition period and, with greater depth of data, in the mobilizations of residents of the Santa Cândida neighborhood in the 1980s.