scholarly journals "Somos mais sofridas do que marginais”: A mulher Negra do Mercado de Trabalho

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-556
Author(s):  
Renan Gomes de Moura

ResumoEm toda a trajetória profissional das mulheres elas são fontes de comentários sobre suas capacidades profissionais, embora sigam velhos paradigmas como: “Elas nasceram para lavar, passar, e serem mães”. O presente trabalho adotou a suposição que a mulher negra sofre preconceito racial no mercado de trabalho. O objetivo final consistiu em analisar se a mulher negra sofre preconceito racial e de gênero no mercado de trabalho. É possível compreender que a mulher negra tem a necessidade de comprovar ser mais eficiente, pois quando se fala de profissional negro para a sociedade é sinônimo de falta de experiência e ter que demonstrar ser mais capaz. A raça então se torna sinônimo de falta de habilidade, ou seja, a sociedade exige muito mais das mulheres negras. Ainda na atualidade, as mulheres negras continuam à margem da sociedade tendo que provar todos os dias seu potencial para exercer funções com maior visibilidade no mercado.Palavras-chave: Mulher negra. Mercado de Trabalho. Preconceito.AbstractIn all the disciplines of women, they are important sources of comments about their organizations, "acronyms follow old paradigms": "They were born to wash, pass, and be mothers." The present paper adopted the assumption that black women suffer from racial prejudice in the labor market. The ultimate goal was to examine whether black women suffer racial and gender bias in the labor market. It is possible to notice that she is a black woman with a need to prove to be more efficient, because when speaking of black professional to a society is synonymous with lack of experience and having to demonstrate to be more capable. Race then becomes synonymous with lack of skill, that is, a society demands much more from black women. It is still not current, as black women are still on the margins of society and have to prove their potential every day to practice the functions with greater visibility in the market.Key-words: Black Woman. Labor Market. Prejudice.

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. King

An initial exploration of the comparative labor market situation of black women in the United States and Great Britain reveals that race and gender play similar roles in allocating people among broad occupations in both nations despite differences in historical circumstances. However, a closer examination based upon measures of occupational segregation shows that labor market dynamics are quite different. Public employment and education do not reduce racial segregation in Britain as they do in the United States, and the immigrant status of many black Britons does not explain these differences. Only youth is associated with reduced segregation in both countries.


2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (10) ◽  
pp. 1427-1439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey C. Thiem ◽  
Rebecca Neel ◽  
Austin J. Simpson ◽  
Andrew R. Todd

We investigated whether stereotypes linking Black men and Black boys with violence and criminality generalize to Black women and Black girls. In Experiments 1 and 2, non-Black participants completed sequential-priming tasks wherein they saw faces varying in race, age, and gender before categorizing danger-related objects or words. Experiment 3 compared task performance across non-Black and Black participants. Results revealed that (a) implicit stereotyping of Blacks as more dangerous than Whites emerged across target age, target gender, and perceiver race, with (b) a similar magnitude of racial bias across adult and child targets and (c) a smaller magnitude for female than male targets. Evidence for age bias and gender bias also emerged whereby (d) across race, adult targets were more strongly associated with danger than were child targets, and (e) within Black (but not White) targets, male targets were more strongly associated with danger than were female targets.


2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 376-404
Author(s):  
Liliane Matias da Silva ◽  
Felipe Silva Duarte ◽  
Joseane de Queiroz Vieira

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi examinar a participação do Grupo de Valorização Negra do Cariri no combate à violência doméstica contra a mulher negra em Crato, interior do Ceará. Verificou-se que essa associação civil é um modelo de enfrentamento à violência de raça e de gênero, perante a negligência histórico-estatal. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Grupo de Valorização Negra do Cariri. Mulher negra. Violência doméstica e familiar.   ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to examine the participation of Cariri Black Valorization Group in the combat against domestic violence against black women in Crato, interior city of Ceará. It was verified that this civil association is a model of confrontation to the violence of race and gender, before historical state disregard. KEYWORDS: Cariri Black Valorization Group. Black Woman. Domestic and family violence.


Author(s):  
Brittany N. Hearne ◽  
Holly J. McCammon

This chapter traces the social movement cause lawyering of black women over the last one hundred years. The discussion examines the legal activism of four generations of black women lawyers, investigating the influence of the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements on their activism. For the earliest generation of black women lawyers, late in the nineteenth century, earning a law degree itself was an onerous struggle. The second generation used their legal skills to advocate for black justice within the civil rights movement. A third generation drew on comparisons of racial and gender discrimination, highlighting similarities and furthering the understanding of gender bias. The fourth generation of black women cause lawyers, often working within the legal academy, has led in developing the intersectionality paradigm, which explains how racism and gender bias intertwine. The chapter concludes by considering the significant impacts of black women cause lawyers, including how their insights reveal law’s operation in the lives of women of color and others influenced by multiple politicized identities.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yuniar Fatmasari

AbstractBasically, the body of the black woman slaves have experienced an immensely oppression whether from the economic, politic, and ideological dimensions; nevertheless, it is the ideological strategy which is believed in contributing the biggest and furthest effect so that the oppression still exists even the slavery has been abolished. During the slavery, the black woman slaves are forced to give birth as many as possible for the profit of the master. This shows that there is a control over the womb of the black woman slave. One of the strategies that the writer wants to convey in this article is the regulation on the maternal role of the black woman slaver. The individual maternal role is considered as a good strategy to conquer the body of the black woman slave so that they and the post-slavery black women are placing a disadvantage position in the social structure. Racism, sexism, class, and gender issues are assumed as the causal factors of this kind of social inequity.Keywords: individual maternal role, communal maternal roleAbstrakPada dasarnya, tubuh budak perempuan kulit hitam telah mengalami opresi secara besar-besaran baik dari dimensi ekonomi, politik dan ideologi; namun demikian, strategi ideologi-lah yang dipercaya memberikan efek paling besar dan dalam sehingga opresi tetap ada bahkan meski perbudakan itu sendiri telah ditiadakan. Selama perbudakan,budak perempuan kulit hitam dipaksa melahirkan anak sebanyak mungkin untuk kepentingan profit sang majikan dan hal tersebut menunjukkan adanya kontrol terhadap rahim budak perempuan kulit hitam. Salah satu strategi yang penulis ingin kemukakan di dalam artikel ini adalah regulasi terhadap peran maternal budak perempuan kulit hitam. Peran maternal individu dianggap strategis untuk menguasai tubuh perempuan kulit hitam sehingga budak perempuan kulit hitam dan perempuan kulit hitam pasca perbudakan menempati posisi yang tidak menguntungkan di dalam struktur sosial.Wacana rasisme, seksisme, kelas dan gender diasumsikan menjadi faktor penyebab ketimpangan sosial semacam ini.Kata kunci: peran maternal individu, peran maternal komunal


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Luz Gabriela Arango Gaviria

Resumen: El artículo aborda las lógicas de producciónde la discriminación que operan en el ámbitolaboral en sectores populares de Bogotá, a partir de lasexperiencias de personas negras residentes en la localidadde San Cristóbal. Se identifican algunas de lasarticulaciones entre dos grandes ordenadores sociales,el género y la raza en las experiencias subjetivas de ladiscriminación y las estrategias para enfrentarlas. Elanálisis se centra, primero, en la descripción, interpretacióny comparación de las experiencias de mujeresy hombres negros inscritos en una lógica de supervivencia;las dos últimas hacen lo mismo a partir de lasexperiencias de mujeres y hombres negros con proyectosde movilidad social.Palabras Clave: Género, discriminación racial,sectores populares, afrocolombianos, movilidad social.Abstract: This paper reviews the logic of the productionof discrimination in the labor market, on thebasis of the experience of both women and men whoidentify themselves as black or African-Colombians,residents of popular neighborhoods of Bogotá. Some ofthe intersections of race and gender oppressions areidentified in the ways these men and women perceivetheir experiences of discrimination and the strategiesthey employ to face them. The analysis focuses first onthe description, interpretation and comparison of theexperiences of black women and men who live in precariousconditions of survival, and secondly on an examinationof the experience of people who are moving to abetter position in society.Keywords: gender, racial discrimination, low-classsectors, African-Colombians, social mobility.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Ana Caroline Amorim OLIVEIRA

RESUMO O objetivo do presente artigo consiste em refletir sobre a perspectiva interseccional da autora Lélia Gonzalez, especificamente, em suas análises sobre os discursos acerca da mulher negra na construção e manutenção do mito da democracia racial no Brasil. A sua abordagem relacionando raça, classe e gênero- posteriormente é cunhado o termo interseccionalidades para caracterizar tal articulação- traz reflexões sobre a sociedade brasileira e o mito que a estrutura simbolicamente: o da democracia racial a partir da figura da mulher negra. Para sua análise Gonzalez articula, interdisciplinarmente, o marxismo e a psicanálise passando pelas ciências sociais e história, chegando na sua tese sobre o racismo enquanto uma neurose cultural brasileira. Dessa forma, ao retomar o pensamento de Gonzalez percebemos a sua urgência e atualidade para os estudos feministas, bem como, o reconhecimento enquanto uma intérprete do Brasil. Interseccionalidade. Lélia Gonzalez. Mito da democracia racial. Mulher negra. Lélia Gonzalez and intersectional thinking: a reflection on the myth of racial democracy in BrazilABSTRACT The aim of this article is to reflect on the intersectional perspective of the author Lélia Gonzalez, specifically in her analysis of the discourses about black women in the construction and maintenance of the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Its approach relating race, class and gender - later the term intersectionality is coined to characterize such articulation - brings reflections on Brazilian society and the myth that symbolically structures it: that of racial democracy based on the figure of the black woman. For his analysis, Gonzalez articulates interdisciplinary Marxism and psychoanalysis through the social sciences and history, arriving at his thesis on racism as a Brazilian cultural neurosis. Thus, when resuming Gonzalez's thinking, we perceive his urgency and timeliness for feminist studies, as well as recognition as an interpreter of Brazil.Intersectionality. Lélia Gonzalez. Myth of racial democracy. Black woman. Lélia González e pensiero intersezionale: una riflessione sul mito della democrazia razziale in BrasileRESUMENL'obiettivo di questo articolo è di riflettere sulla prospettiva intersezionale dell'autore Lélia González, in particolare, nella sua analisi dei discorsi sulle donne di colore nella costruzione e nel mantenimento del mito della democrazia razziale in Brasile. Il suo approccio mette in relazione razza, classe e genere - il termine intersezionalità è stato creato per caratterizzare tale articolazione - porta riflessioni sulla società brasiliana e sul mito che la struttura simbolicamente: quella della democrazia razziale basata sulla figura della donna nera. Per la sua analisi, González articola, interdisciplinare, il marxismo e la psicoanalisi attraverso le scienze sociali e la storia, arrivando alla sua tesi sul razzismo come nevrosi culturale brasiliana. Pertanto, riprendendo il pensiero di González, percepiamo la sua urgenza e attualità per gli studi femministi, nonché il riconoscimento come interprete dal Brasile.Intersezionalità. Lélia González. Mito della democrazia razziale. Donna nera. Lélia González e pensiero intersezionale: una riflessione sul mito della democrazia razziale in BrasileSINTESEL'obiettivo di questo articolo è di riflettere sulla prospettiva intersezionale dell'autore Lélia González, in particolare, nella sua analisi dei discorsi sulle donne di colore nella costruzione e nel mantenimento del mito della democrazia razziale in Brasile. Il suo approccio mette in relazione razza, classe e genere - il termine intersezionalità è stato creato per caratterizzare tale articolazione - porta riflessioni sulla società brasiliana e sul mito che la struttura simbolicamente: quella della democrazia razziale basata sulla figura della donna nera. Per la sua analisi, González articola, interdisciplinare, il marxismo e la psicoanalisi attraverso le scienze sociali e la storia, arrivando alla sua tesi sul razzismo come nevrosi culturale brasiliana. Pertanto, riprendendo il pensiero di González, percepiamo la sua urgenza e attualità per gli studi femministi, nonché il riconoscimento come interprete dal Brasile.Intersezionalità. Lélia González. Mito della democrazia razziale. Donna nera.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Snodgrass

This article explores the complexities of gender-based violence in post-apartheid South Africa and interrogates the socio-political issues at the intersection of class, ‘race’ and gender, which impact South African women. Gender equality is up against a powerful enemy in societies with strong patriarchal traditions such as South Africa, where women of all ‘races’ and cultures have been oppressed, exploited and kept in positions of subservience for generations. In South Africa, where sexism and racism intersect, black women as a group have suffered the major brunt of this discrimination and are at the receiving end of extreme violence. South Africa’s gender-based violence is fuelled historically by the ideologies of apartheid (racism) and patriarchy (sexism), which are symbiotically premised on systemic humiliation that devalues and debases whole groups of people and renders them inferior. It is further argued that the current neo-patriarchal backlash in South Africa foments and sustains the subjugation of women and casts them as both victims and perpetuators of pervasive patriarchal values.


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