SONG OF JOY OR SOBBING OF PAIN?: THE SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF WOMEN'S LIVES IN A QUILOMBOLA COMMUNITY
Quilombagem; reproductive work; black women.
Quilombola communities in Brazil represent territories of resistance and cultural preservation, historically formed in response to enslavement and oppression, present since the country's sociohistorical formation. Clóvis Moura's concept of quilombagem was developed from this process of struggle and resistance, and is not limited to a phenomenon of the past, and is not related only to the territory, but remains a contemporary way of confronting the structures that reproduce oppression. Within this process, this study begins with the material basis of social relations to understand how exploitation and oppression are articulated in the lives of Black women in quilombola communities. To this end, the research is grounded in historical and dialectical materialism, in which the object of study must be interpreted based on its own determinations. The main objective is to examine the dynamics of social reproduction in the Coqueiros Quilombola community based on the Black women's resistance movement in the 21st century. To this end, semi-structured interviews will be conducted with 11 Black women residing in the Quilombola Community of Coqueiros, Rio Grande do Norte. From this, we hope to understand how the work and life processes in the Quilombola Coqueiros community reproduce the living conditions and resistance of the racialized working class in Brazil, with the central role of women in this movement.