The color of the relations: body, age and affectivity in the experience of black women in a neighborhood of Natal/RN
Affectivity; Black Women; Body; Generation; Intersectionality.
This dissertation is the result of an ethnographic research on affective experiences ofBrazilian black women, more precisely inhabitants in the city of Natal / RN. From the dialogues, conversations, accompaniments and several listening exercises with sixinterlocutors, the work explores how the expression of affections and the construction ofbonds with other signifiers are related to the racial dimension. The interlocutors are black women living in a neighborhood considered peripheral in the city and are in theage group of fifty to seventy five years of age. The dissertation intends to contributewith the reflection on a subject which has not been deepened in the studies that take like core the subject of the race in Brazil; namely: Affectivity. Thus, the affective dimensioncrosses the text and the reflections proposed here about body, health, beauty, love, oldage. At the same time the research aims to contribute to the reflection on thecomplexities of race relations in contemporary Brazil. Most studies on race in Brazilrecognize the contemporary effects of the colonial system on the life of the blackpopulation in socioeconomic and political matters. This text subscribes in the line ofworks - less abundant - that the black population was also denied the freedom to expresstheir emotions, their affective subjectivity and the opportunity to establish and maintainties and family. That is, it recognizes that the affective dimension also carries the marksof the history of domination and subalternization of the black people in the country.Thus, the following pages seek to understand to what extent some experiences of theinterlocutors, informed by race, gender, class, sexuality and generation intersect andimpact on the construction of affective bonds.