Strategies for breaking racism and sexism in everyday life: reflections based on the trajectory of Dora Lucia de Lima Bertúlio
eveyday racism; black feminisms; intersectionality; life’s history; memory
The research aims to reflect on the emergences of practices undertaken by black women in their daily lives and wich potentially provoque disruptions in the dynamics and effects of racismo nad sexism. The intended reflection will be constructed fro the study of the life trajectory of the jurist Dora Lucia de Lima Bertúlio, one of the first intellectuals to discuss racismo in the legal field in the 1980s. Writing a thesis about her personal and political trajectory means to inderstand how stories of black women enhance reflection on race, sex-gender, class and politics in Brazil, and to mobilize aspects that have been suppressed, desarticulated or denied by the hegemonic theoretical perspectives of Law na Social Sciences. This qualification report presentes the research proposal and covers the paths developed so far. Furthermore, it presentes the concepts, starting theoretical dialogues and the methodological strategies adopted. In the first part, I discuss the epistemologial Horizon of black feminisms and intersectionality and present the notions of everiday life and everyday racism. In the second part, I present the life story as the privileged method of the word and the first meetings with Dora Lucia. Finally, I discuss how the narrative of life stories challenges us to imagine the production of Other collective memories (and erittings), which are capable of telling the experiences and subjetivities marked by racism an sexism, without the violence engendered in the articulation of theses systems of power remove the subjects themselves from the scene.