Branquitude e Feminismo Negro: o reflexo do poder e do privilégio branco nas discriminações interseccionais de raça e gênero no Brasil

Abstract

The present work aimed to investigate the influence of Whiteness in the intersectional discrimination of race and gender suffered by black women in Brazil. In colonized societies, there was racial hierarchy as a way of justifying supremacy and the permanence of white power and privilege, based on different sources, with white subjects being synonymous with humanity and blacks possessing “Otherness”. Likewise, Colonialism presents a gender hierarchy, placing men in a superior position to women, making Universal Feminism activists believe in their Otherness. However, because black women suffer an intersection of oppressions, mainly race and gender, they must be classified as the “Other of the other, which was not recognized by Black Movements and Universal Feminisms. Thus, Black Feminism arises and defends the existence of these oppressions and the impossibility of being seen in isolation, being this perspective academically called Intersectional Theory. But, despite the articulations carried out by the Black Feminist Movement, there is a system that, supported by Whiteness through “pacts”, maintains the status of domination of black women, which is directly reflected in the Brazilian justice system.