Black Women’s Activism in Brazil: Black Genocide, Anti-Blackness and Racial Apartheid

Kenneth Williamson,

doi:10.26694/caedu.v2i3.11520

Black Women’s Activism in Brazil: Black Genocide, Anti-Blackness and Racial Apartheid

Kenneth Williamson,

Resumo

This article focuses on changes in Black women’s activism, particularly in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from 1995-2015, by comparing two national marches. Black organizations throughout the country came together to organize a national march in national’s capital Brasilia in November 1995. Twenty years later in November 2015, Black women organized a national march to address the intersection of racism and sexism. During those twenty years, Black activists worked tirelessly against Black genocide, anti-Blackness and racial apartheid in Brazil, and Black women stood on the frontlines of these struggles. The intersectionality of race, class, and gender were and remain critical to the activism of Black women and to the production of research and knowledge. The paper examines the changes activism in the Black movement over twenty years that marked the growth on Black women’s organizations and networks.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26694/caedu.v2i3.11520