Grupo de Mulheres Negras Mãe Andresa: um olhar à construção dos direitos humanos das mulheres negras a partir de suas vivências, experiências e posicionalidades

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the experiences, practices and positionalities of black women as markers for the construction of the human rights of black women, from the perspective of the members of the Grupo de Mulheres Negras Mãe Andresa, following three dimensions: the impact of the colonial period on the creation of racism and social sexism; the geopolitics of the place as an influence for the construction of the human rights of black women; and the sense of the geopolitics of the place in which the black women subject of the research move to their social mobility, understanding spaces as representation or subalternization. The work focuses on the Grupo de Mulheres Negras Mãe Andresa, at which the survey was conducted during the year 2017, but with a look at the historicity of the group. The methodology used was oral history, from which one could think of the need to occupy spaces of representation by the members of the group, such as the Historic Center of São Luís, in Maranhão, where its headquarters is located, to claim visibility and rights of black women, surpassing the condition of social subalternization imposed on them.