Guanabara Basin: Organizational Process and Experience of Black Women in the 1980s in Rio de Janeiro
Black Women; CEMUFP; Writing Experience; REMUNEA, 1980s.
This thesis sought to analyze some articulations, demands, and the political and social formation
of the Black women's movement in the city of Rio de Janeiro. To this end, the movement is understood, named,
and recognized as the Brazilian Black women's movement, later broadening the concept to include
the Brazilian Black feminist movement. The period analyzed was the 1980s, documenting regional
and national seminars, debates, meetings, and the publication of articles in the Black press,
specifically the newspapers Nzinga - Coletivo de Mulheres Negras (Black Women's Collective)
and SINBA - Órgão de Divulgação da Sociedade de Intercâmbio Brasil-África (Brazil-Africa Exchange Society).
The choice of the research object, the Black women's movement, or rather, the organization of Black women
that played a leading role in the history of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Latin America and the Caribbean,
with its significant political movements, included the intellectual productions of Pedrina de Deus written in the Black press within the newspapers Nzinga and SINBA, the contributions of Joselina da Silva in articles, and the regional and national meetings of Black women. The methodology used was "escrevivência" (a blend of writing and lived experience) which combines the writing and lived experiences of four women interviewed. I analyzed some collective and individual experiences of women with the social markers of race, gender, territory, social class, religion, and sexuality. This analysis was based on a group of women organized within CEMUFP - the Center for Women of Favelas and Peripheries. These women include Sandra Bello, Joana Angélica, Elizabeth Viana, Heloisa Marcondes, and many other Black women who contributed to and with the women's movement that began in their places of residence, the favelas and peripheries. In their territories, initially demanding access to water and protection against evictions, a collective struggle for racial belonging was born, unfolding within CEMUFP
and the Aqualtune Black Women's Meeting – REMUNEA.