MARKERS OF GENDER AND RACE IN THE LIVES OF BLACK WOMEN IN URBAN SPACE

FROM THE LIMITING RIGHT TO THE CITY TO STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE

Abstract

From the literature review on topics such as gender, race, right to the city and urban segregation, and the analysis of nationwide data provided by research institutes, we intend to incite a discussion about the reality of black women in the outskirts of Brazilian cities. We start from the epistemological theories of geographers whose ideas have denounced the supposed neutrality of geographic space, which for a long time reproduced androcentric, racist, sexist, and heteronormative analyses. We believe that the full experience of urbanity is a privileged condition only for some social segments, while a large part of the population survives amidst a series of social, economic, cultural, and environmental difficulties that prevent them from enjoying the right to the city. Among this group, we highlight black women, who suffer intense exclusion due to the intersectionality of their condition, but that despite poverty, prejudice and violence, through their resistance capacity, the support of agents and the formation of solidarity economy groups, among others, have achieved achievements, sometimes specific, but significant, in these spaces.