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COUNCIL OF BLACK ENTITIES FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO (CENIERJ): autoethnographic perspectives

CENIERJ; Black Movement of the Interior; Black Organizations; Autoethnography.

This thesis analyzes the characteristics of the creation processes of the Council of Black Entities of the Interior of the State of Rio de Janeiro (CENIERJ) and the activism that built and maintained it, focusing on the final years of the 1980s and 1990s. During this period, CENIERJ strategically articulated the Black organizations in the interior of the state, with actions in more than forty municipalities, holding two annual meetings, every six months, for over three decades, demanding specific agendas for this segment, thus highlighting the strength of the interior and the historical struggle of the Black movement against racism in Brazilian society. The analysis of this trajectory seeks to highlight the silences and invisibilities experienced by the Black population, while simultaneously exposing the protagonism of the Black Movement as a historical subject confronting racial hegemony and Euro-ethnocentric values, creating tension, informing, forming, and educating for anti-racism. I considered my own experience of Blackness and the consequences of racial markers in my identity construction, combined with my activism, as decisive factors in the methodological choice of autoethnography, therefore, in constant dialogue with the research and analyses that I now present, emphasizing narratives that are still subalternized and hierarchized in Brazilian historiography. To substantiate the thesis on the contribution of CENIERJ to the consolidation of the Black Movement in the state of Rio de Janeiro, it was fundamental to address the social and political context, the characters involved in this process during the period of its founding (1987), when black activism was also maturing in the capital and throughout the country.