The social (un)protection of black women: strategies and resistance

Abstract

This article aims to bring reflections based on the history of Brazilian social formation,
highlighting the social and economic contradictions of inequalities that arise from colonial
and racialized legacies and the cost of this history of inequalities on black women in Brazil.
It highlights protective actions and responses, mainly having, as a historical collective
subject, black women and their organizational experiences of resistance to the oppression
of slavery. Resulting from qualitative research, with emphasis on bibliographical study
and social indicators, in its final notes the mechanisms of struggle and resistance of black
women are reaffirmed, in the rescue of the exercise of politics to strengthen another
sociability under an anti-capitalist social worldview.