Porque fomos sequestradas dos pés ao último fio de cabelo : práticas pedagógicas no movimento de mulheres negras e a ressignificação do corpo negro

Abstract

The present work seeks to explore the power of pedagogical practices used by the black women movement in Pernambuco. In order to do so, we have a discussion centered on racist violence and the ideology of whiteness, discussing both its elementary bases and those of diffusion in Brazilian culture - based on the pioneering research of Neuza Souza Santos. The elaboration of violence as an ideology appears to us through contours that impose an Ideal of Ego on black people affecting its psyche, as well as - not less - its social status, assigned to a place of subalternity in subjective and objective dimensions. For an analysis of this context and its complexity, we look at the discourse of coloniality that reverberates in today's structures by continuing the notion of the black body as devoid of full humanity. The phenomenon of naturalization of socio-cultural aspects and its reverse, the socio-cultural formulation of natural aspects proliferate this notion that the black body should occupy the place of service, whipping and hypersexualization. Thus, it was in this research to approach the black body in its natural and symbolic nuances and its interface with Brazilian history and its relation and way of conceiving this body. Within this natural and symbolic sphere, based on the principles of Research-Action and Ethnography, we enter into the universe of the self-organized group of black women Cabelaço-PE, and in its agenda of the year 2015; we draw from their actions an inventory of pedagogical practices for the deconstruction of racism and sexism in Brazilian society. We use intersectional feminism, coined by black American black intellectuals, as epistemology to understand the social stratification sustained by processes of racialization and objectification of the black woman's body. Uses and senses given to hair appear as central focus for analysis, bringing together references from black intellectuals such as Bell Hooks, Alice Walker, Kathleen Cleaver. The body as a revolutionary unit to the detriment of the reality conserved by racism and that originates in the transmigration of black bodies from Africa to Brazil, has the essential basis of the thoughts and research of the historian Beatriz Nascimento, in which she elaborates on the Orí head, nucleus) and the symbolism and historical reverberation of the initiation and progressive adaptation and historical construction of the black people in Brazilian lands. They are the quilombos old and new in geographical territory and in physical body, overflowing from the experience of the black body, that, being subjected to the severe attacks of racism, is resisting and shaping reality according to its truth and worldview inevitably correlata to the experiences brought from Africa. We approach the experiences of the collective Cabelaço-PE, where the principles of black ancestry (the use of turbans), the re-counting of stories with the protagonism of black women (the Abayomis dolls and the transatlantic culture), and the re-signification of the black body (self-reflection as a feminist training methodology).