Maternidade negra interrompida: contribuições de mães de vítimas do genocídio antinegro para uma gramática contra-hegemônica de direitos humanos

Abstract

This work analyzes the clash between the conceptions of human rights elaborated by black mothers of victims of the anti-black genocide and the dogmatics of Law. The hypothesis of this research is that for those who have their motherhood interrupted by one of the most serious expressions of racism, there is not enough accommodation in the hegemonic grammar of human rights. From interviews with four black mothers who had their children killed by armed violence in the state of Rio de Janeiro, key categories of human rights were debated and their meanings were put into dispute, under the analytical lens of race, from the elaborations of mothers. The criminalization of black motherhood and the power of resistance, positionality and insurgency of these mothers were also analyzed, in order to understand how the brutal death that ends the life of a child also has the power to give birth to an ialodê. The presented narratives affirm a color line that determines the maternities worthy of protection and denaturalizes the notion that every woman can be a mother. In conclusion, when listening to the elaborations of black mothers who lost their children, it is clear that in order to confront the state's deadly fury and seek justice, their motherhoods assume a political conformation and their bodies and voices are constituted in struggle. In addition, his formulations based on pain are forged into paths for the construction of a counter-hegemonic grammar of human rights, with the potential to guarantee the protection of black lives.