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Amefricanity: A Black Feminist Proposal for a Political Organization and Social Transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

Cláudia Pons Cardoso  and
Lia Castillo Espinosa
Cláudia Pons Cardoso*
Affiliation:
Department of Education, State University of Bahia, Rua Silveira Martins 2555, Cabula Salvador, 41150-000, Bahia, Brazil
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Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article analyzes the work and thought of Lélia Gonzalez on the experience of Black women in Brazil. It highlights her legacy within studies of Black Feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the importance of her articulation between sex, class, and race with the intention of understanding the social inequality Indigenous and Black women suffer. Gonzalez's political-cultural category of Amefricanity is presented in this article as an instrument of analysis specific to the region, which promotes an epistemological shift within Black feminism. This category seeks to interpret the stories and survival strategies of previous generations of Black women on the continent, as well as to learn their methods and transgressive practices of asymmetrical power relations as pedagogical processes.

Type
Feminism in Translation
Information
Hypatia , Volume 37 , Special Issue 3: Decolonial Feminism in Latin Améfrica: An Essential Anthology , Summer 2022 , pp. 559 - 565
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation

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Footnotes

This article was first published as: Claudia Pons Cardozo. 2019. Amefricanidade: Proposta feminista negra de organização política e transformação social. LASA Forum (50): 44–49.

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