SILVA, Rosana de Medeiros.; SOUZA, Wallace Gomes Ferreira de.
Resumo:
The ieldwork that gave rise to the relections present in this text were carried
out in the remaining black community of Quilombo Lagoinha, located in the rural
area of the municipality of Serra Branca, region of the cariri, Paraíba - Brazil. We
take as a guiding principle of the research “to be there”, a challenge proper to
ethnographic work. Our look turned to the life stories of women in the quilombola
community of Logoinha-PB / Brazil, as our objective was to understand what
the role of these black women is in the process of organizing that community.
Therefore, we operate with the categories of gender, race and work based on
the intersectionality axis. Methodologically we seek through oral history to reveal
the relationship between the social history and individual trajectory of each black
woman and thus understand how they built their identities. Throughout the
research, we dialogued with black intellectuals such as Sueli Carneiro, bell hooks,
Djamila Ribeiro, Carla Akotiene, Joice Berth, Lélia Gonzalez, among others. The
ield research process also revealed the bonds of solidarity, collectivity and kinship,
important dimensions for understanding the social organization of the community,
since women start to organize themselves socially in view of their speciic cof being
black quilombola women, building a network of solidarity, a strategy evidenced by
the historic struggle Black Feminist Movement in Brazil.