Mulheres negras amazônidas frente à cidade morena: o lugar da Psicologia, os territórios de resistência.

Abstract

The idea that the Amazon is a land of fauna, flora and "Indian" hangs in the social imagination. It was forgotten by the traditional historiography that the black African presence in the racial configuration of the region considered derisory. However, local researchers have long been reinstating in their research the importance of the region in the national panorama, highlighting the contribution of black Africans trafficked to Grão- Pará. Thus, contrary to the imaginary, it was the last IBGE census (2010) that 76.7% of the paraenses declared themselves to be blacks (69.5% brown, 7.2% black), data that show a raciality strongly marked by miscegenation in that the myth of whitening racial democracy hinders the (self) identification of Amazonian blackness that is hidden under morenity and by the myth of the indigenous. In this way, racism as an ideological weapon, prejudice and discrimination follows as a modulator of social relations and the modus operandis of nation-state. Considering that the analyzes must be done in an articulated way, it is necessary to adopt intersectionality as an instrument for understandings situated in concrete bodies: with race, gender, class, territory, history. In that, black women are the main victims of historical invisibility, miscegenation and the worst human development indexes, so they allow a greater understanding of Brazilian racial reality. In this sense, Black Feminist Thought was adopted as a viable epistemology to understand how black women construct their blackness in the Amazon region, in particular, in the Metropolitan Region of Belém. The concept-field of social constructionism was adopted made conversation wheels, notes in the field diary, conversations in the daily life and use of theoretical references of Black Feminism and of race relations in an attempt to problematize the discourses on the theme and what Psychology has produced with its practices. It has been noticed that racial relations are complex and that at the gender-race intersection, black women are socially and academically marginalized since there are few studies with / on the political subjects in Psychology which by positioning outsider within brings other contributions, the for example, the processes of racialization in the Amazon. Although these occur in the same power game of Brazilian racial relations, the very constitution of history in the Amazon, the cultural and material networks of the black ancestors bequeathed constructions of different negritude, therefore, ontological negritude is non-existent and black women exist in a diversity. Therefore, it is up to Psychology to ethically commit contingency, as other researchers have been doing, the stories of the Amazon and Brazil in their own speeches, breaking the silence pact on racism, qualifying their practices, welcoming those who seek them with psychic sufferings generated by racism and fighting shoulder to shoulder with the black feminist movements / racism at its intersections.