Mulheres negras encarceradas: autoetnografia e o Estado da arte na produção acadêmica do serviço Social

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze the presence of the categories race and gender in the academic productions of the Brazilian Social Service concerning the prison system, published in journals of the area available online between the years 2000 and 2019, dissertations and theses available on the platform Sucupira/ CAPES between 2014 and 2019 and elaborate a collaborative autoethnographic study with a young black woman from her experience with the prison system. In the last 20 years, the number of incarcerated black women has increased exponentially throughout the Brazilian territory, however, it is noticeable how little the Social Service has produced in relation to this expression of the social issue and its determinants, as was evidenced during the research. To carry out the research, we used the triangulation method for allowing the application of multi-methods, thus offering a greater possibility of understanding the complex reality under study. This is a collaborative bibliographic and autoenographic study of qualitative approach, exploratory and comprehensive character. In this way, the first chapter presents, from the bibliographical review, elements that contribute to understanding the process of struggle and (re) existence of black women during the slavery period and after the abolition, including their decisive participation in the insurgencies for the end of slavery. The second chapter presents the state of the art of the academic productions of Social Work between 2000 and 2019, giving visibility to the absence of the categories race and gender in the analyses carried out by Social Work on the prison system and the third chapter presents a collaborative autoethnographic study with a young black woman who went through the prison system. As a result, we identified the consequences of the invisibility of the racial issue since the professional training of social workers. The incipient scientific production of Social Work about the prison system and the scarce approach of the categories race and gender in the research works referring to the prison system in the last twenty years. The collaborative autoethnography with a young black woman who lived the experience of the prison system revealed the continuity of the processes of struggle and (re) existence as a socio-historical reflection of a capitalist, racist, patriarchal, cisheteronormative society