Vozes sagradas: as resistências de mulheres negras no candomblé da Bahia

Abstract

This dissertation walks by paths that connect my experience as black woman and with an aphrodiasporic spirituality, to the trajectory of activism carried out by women who are also marked by these three social markers. The research comes up at an unusual moment in the history of Latin America marked by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, which victimized thousands of Brazilians and by the socio-political context in which the achievements of marginalized identities that once disputed spaces of visibility in society structures, return to the margins at the apex of retrogression, resuming old struggles and embracing the same previous goals: to keep themselves alive and while the weapons of conservatism and Eurocentric normativity continue pointed in their directions. The main objective is to reflect on the resistance movements performed by black women from Candomblé in Bahia and their impact on the public scene, having as reference the Makota Valdina National Front. The analysis starts from the presupposition that ancestry is the guiding principle of these struggles and resistance strategies in favor of religious rights and against the oppressive regimes articulated around the black female existence. Thus, the research was tied up from fundamental theoretical and methodological lines for the discussions of race, gender and religiosity as intersectional categories.