BETWEEN MEETINGS, MARCHES AND JOURNEYS: THE PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN IN THE BLACK MOVEMENT OF ALAGOAS (1980-1988)
Alagoas Black Movement; Black Women; Social Mobilizations;
Narratives.
The Black Movement in Alagoas was organized in the late 1970s, following its path in the Palmares region during the Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) in force at the time. Based on its relationships with academia and civil society, the Zumbi Cultural Association (ACZ) sought alternatives to strengthen the anti-racist struggle in the state through political and educational activities in the Alagoas scenario. This research aims to analyze the actions of black women from 1980 to 1988, identifying their main causes of struggle and spheres of action. Our purpose was to promote a reflection on the implications imposed on black women based on their social markers. In this sense, as a theoretical and methodological support for Oral History, we will analyze the narratives of black women who were part of the Alagoas Black Movement at the time mentioned above, highlighting their political protagonisms and seeking to understand how the different types of violence permeated their subjectivities, as well as analyzing their organizational strategies. We will use as a body of analysis bibliographic references that adopted the categories of race, class and gender from the perspective of the Black Movement, considering regional and national events around black female visibility, oral accounts of black activists, documentation and materials in audiovisual format of events promoted by the ACZ, such as the process of listing the Serra da Barriga and the Journey of the Black Woman from Alagoas, made available by the Center for Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies of the Federal University of Alagoas (NEABI/UFAL).