Representações sociais da mulher preta universitária sobre o feminismo: a realidade da Amazônia Marajoara

Abstract

The current study has main objective to analyze the representations that black university Marajoara women build on Feminism and the implications for their self-recognition as a black woman from a descriptive - exploratory perspective of a qualitative nature. This study has as its theoretical and methodological basis the Social Representations by Serge Moscovici (1978; 2005) and Denise Jodelet (2001) applying its construction in the Ego - Ecological Theory of Marisa Zavalloni (1980). In the discussion about Feminism, we present authors such as Simone de Beauvoir (1967), Judith Butler (2003 [1990], 2013), Djamila Ribeiro (2002, 2013), relating this discussion to the self-recognition of race of the black Marajoara woman, in addition to the contributions of authors such as Alessandra Devulsky (2021), Silvio Almeida (2019), Kanbegele Munanga (1994, 2003, 2004, 2012), Branca Alves (1991) among others. To obtain the data for this research, semi-structured interviews were carried out with three self-recognized black women, between 20 and 34 years old, originally from the Marajoara Region (Amazon), where this study was developed. Data analysis is based on the three stages of analysis of the Ego-ecological Theory articulating with the dimensions of Social Representations. The stages analyzed the Contextualization of the identity of the subjects (First Stage), the senses of self constructed (Second Stage) and the Identity Representations - values and degrees of belonging to the group (Third Stage), presenting the research approach structures from the Ego – ecology through the processes of belonging through the positive or negative poles, whether egomorphic or allomorphic, concluding in the positive or negative identification of the subjects, in the process of understanding the attributed values and assimilated representations. The results showed the lack of dialogue at the University about how their environment influences and contributes to the identity construction of the black marajoara woman from discussions in the academic environment, taking into account their production of knowledge and about them in favor of combating the epistemicide of the black knowledge. However, the research showed that the social representations of the subjects dialogue with their realities and contribute to the formulation and (re) construction of a positive social identity of this black marajoara and university woman from the rupture of a historical-sociological and everyday life. about her body, her color and her origin. They are proud of themselves recorded in their speeches, but they still struggle against invisibility, subalternity, inferiority and silencing. They fight individually and collectively when they find references at the University and end up becoming references for this research as protagonists and tellers of their own stories in which they contribute new possibilities for studies and scientific investigation about the representations of feminism as a social phenomenon in the lives of black women. bringing their narratives full of stories and voices and, placing themselves as active subjects in history for new studies in this field considering their specificities of origin, ethnicity, social class and gender, also taking into account their experiences arising from a specific reality: such beautiful and majestic Black Woman - Amazon Marajoara.