BLACK PERSPECTIVES ABOUT STIGMA: the narratives from a transgressive body

Abstract

This work aims to examine the social construction of purity and stigma, questioning and challenging them in Brazilian contexts, by highlighting the narratives from black bodies(-territories) and reflecting on how these concepts are manipulated to justify oppression, discrimination and inequality, manifested in the structural racism of our country. In conjunction with ethnographic research (in progress) with quilombola women from the northeast of Brazil, the work claims and highlights the escrevivências of their life trajectories as a way of operating resistance in the face of the various stigmatizations and oppressions that affect them. It elaborates a critical construction on the dehumanization and invisibility imposed by a society that considers itself white and masculine, that is, patriarchal and racist, where a woman's black body is considered in itself, a transgressor.