DEMOCRACY, WOMEN AND RACE: under-representation in Congress and the realization of political rights in Brazil
Black female political participation.Congresso Brazilian. Constitutional right.
The present work seeks to investigate the articulation of the categories democracy, race, and women from the constitutional analysis of the sub-representation of black women in the national Congress. The premise is that there is a true census system that hinders the exercise of political rights to certain social sectors, especially black women. They occupy the basis of the socioeconomic pyramid. Therefore, without the promotion of their participation in instances of power, the transformation of their reality becomes an even more difficult task. Of bibliographical character and of documentary revision, the text is developed with a qualitative method. It was concluded that the country is undergoing a period of great democratic instability, which makes it fundamental to renegotiate the draft Constitution promulgated in 1988, which has already been seriously eroded. Among the main affected are black women, who even when they reach the representative spaces are silenced - with death or with the macho and racist silencing. The path to the well-being and development of the personalities of this considered part of the Brazilian population has no shortcuts. It necessarily goes through the recovery of the sense of politics, of the centrality of the defense of democracy and of the realization of basic guarantees such as the full enjoyment of political rights.