Black Motherhoods in Ilhéus/BA: Subjectvation Processess.
Motherhood; Black woman; Feminist Anthropology; Intersectionality.
This work was born along with the process of becoming the mother of the present anthropologist who, through the crossroads in which she was, sought through a self-reflexive process allowed by autoethnography, to understand different experiences of motherhood from a group of women from her hometown, Ilhéus. In this choreography the black woman's point of view is the central pillar in the light of Black Feminism looking for a possibility for the black woman to speak for herself as a group sharing experiences through her social locus breaking with secular silences. For this, the present work is based on feminist anthropology and presents the historical differences between black and white motherhood fruit of the process of enslavement that still reverberate violently on the black woman. In this sense, fieldwork has become essential in providing a relationship between black mothers who will reflect their condition of race, gender and class and how they influence their motherhood; their thoughts about motherhood; and the “drible” necessary to face the difficulties they encounter, aiming to map and identify as roots and rhizomes of the historical process that identifies black motherhood in Brazil, treated by the State as a “manufacturing defect”.