As vozes que fazem o gênero: o feminino e o masculino nas famílias negras

Abstract

The present study proposes to investigate black family life within the context of the city of São Paulo as well as the construction of both female and male places within these families. Throughout this work it is possible to notice that there is a conspicuous diversity of family patterns and that the historical experience of the African ascendance, the results of black captivity, and especially the matrifocality in their family patterns were and still are remarkable boundaries. This work aims to run through the ways of the construction of the black family throughout historical data and contemporary analysis which connect this debate to the one of gender relations. The theoretical choice for this study is based on the approaches about gender identity and racial identity, and also on the approach given by the Social Sciences as they deal with family relations. This study refers to a universe which settles the insertion of gender and race/ethnicity, relating it to a little explored universe, the one of femininity and masculinity