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No. 5 (2022): Post/de/colonial declensions in Portuguese-speaking contexts

Black feminism in Brazil in dialogue with black feminism in the United States and Latin American decolonial feminism

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46608/conceptos2022a/art6
Submitted
April 16, 2024
Published
2022-09-30

Abstract

Black feminism in Brazil arose from the intertwining of black movements and white feminism in the 1970s, similarly to what occurred in the United States, while de-colonial feminism, a more recent phenomenon, concerns more directly indigenous populations. This article holds that these plural feminisms derive from the same epistemological and political postulates. Lélia Gonzalez (1935-1994) and Sueli Carneiro (born 1950) are the two prominent figures who contributed to the emergence of the black feminist movement.