Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Black Christian women in the United States contributed socially, politically, and intellectually to the transatlantic abolitionist movement through their use of proto-Black feminist and womanist theological language. Tried as By Fire is a five-chapter Black feminist intellectual history that studies Black Christian...
O presente artigo tem por objetivo contribuir, a partir dos diálogos com os estudos sobre a branquitude e com os aportes teóricos do feminismo negro, com o campo da Educação. Para tanto, parte-se de uma análise de cunho qualitativo, inspirados pela história oral, e traz-se para a cena relatos orais de professoras que atuaram na Educação Básica. Os ...
Sanctuary Shorts is a conceptual conversation with distinguished scholars whose work unravels the logics of racial capitalism, thereby enacting radically different humanisms and liberatory worlds of political being. Filmed in the time of global pandemic, these conversations are meant to bring us together as communities of inquiry. Meant to circulat...
This thesis analyzes the origin and impact of Black homophobia found in activist spaces of mid- to late-twentieth-century American society. Black gay Americans were subjected to intersecting forms of systemic and cultural oppression that were exceedingly hard to escape due to both the homophobia in Black spaces and the racism in gay spaces. Black g...
Recent work in Black studies has called for an examination of the far-reaching implications of the historical and ongoing impacts of antiblackness, demanding that scholars analyze its continuously evolving relationship to structural and personal violence. My dissertation, “Exposed Flesh: A Literary History of Black Being,” joins this call with an a...
This study seeks to understand experiences of coloniality or, more precisely, what María Lugones (2008) characterizes as coloniality of gender upon reading the novel I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé (2019). As a necessary depiction of the literary text, this study starts with a specific examination of the narrator-protagonist Tituba,...
O artigo realiza uma abordagem historiográfica (estudo de trajetória) e, à luz dos direitos humanos (feminismo negro), sobre a memória social da historiadora Maria Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995). A narrativa aborda o evento do assassinato de Beatriz Nascimento no dia 28 de janeiro de 1995, que gerou perplexidade e indignação na comunidade negra e n...
Neste trabalho apresento reflexões sobre a presença de mulheres negras no Programa de Pós Graduação em Serviço Social e Políticas Sociais (PPGSSPS) da Universidade Federal de São Paulo - BS. Através de minha narrativa e de narrativas de cinco mulheres negras da primeira e segunda turmas do programa, é possível apreender os caminhos percorridos desd...
This project explores the lives of Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin, the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin respectively. Through an in-depth exploration of their lives I seek to accomplish the following: 1) Provide a more accurate and holistic understanding of Black American revolutionary history. 2) Pre...
Abstract In this essay, I provide a brief overview of Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi’s artistic output (works created between 2012 and 2018), focusing on some of her performances, ephemeral live actions, and writings. At the same time, I read Mattiuzzi’s practice in dialogue with a few other black woman artists from Brazil, thus offering one provisional a...
