Marcha de Mulheres Negras, Rio de Janeiro: imagens, existência e luta na construção de novas visualidades e visibilidades

Abstract

The conjuncture of Brazil governed by an intensification of the social relations of production causes inequalities constructed historically. The black woman in the diaspora, historically in Brazil, has resisted every step of this construction: from the slave quarters to the Virtual March. We have been resisting in the quilombos, in the wheels, in the prayers, in the drums, in the silence and the cry. We march, we give courage and strength to free our song, we demand our right to exist. We became a woman with our ancestors. History has pointed out to us that the black woman brings the revolution within herself, because the turn of the game of submission, erasure and invisibility is deposited in her. This master dissertation aims to reflect on the construction of the collection of memories of images of black women, having as research object the marches of black women in Rio de Janeiro. How does this movement contribute to visual education and the reconstruction of new visualities in the redefinition of the territory? Do black women, on the move in this territory, make black women visible as a social and political subject? What does this visuality leave, as na occupation of this territory, in the collective memory of black women? Photoetnography is used as a methodology to visually tell this narrative.