BLACK MASCULINITIES: A RESEARCH FIELD UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
black masculinities; intersectionality; violence; genocide; bibliometrics
Given the struggle of the sociology of violence to provide explanations that properly
take into account the influence of racism on urban violence in Brazil, this paper intends to offer studies
on black masculinities as an alternative path, based on the epistemological foundations of the "colonial
encounter" and the intersectionality, which could provide arguments that fill the gaps that
hypothetically prevent studies on violence and security from going beyond the findings about the
historical vulnerability of black people to violence, reaching explanatory keys on how racism
underpins this vulnerability. First, however, it is necessary to organize a state of the art on the subject
of black masculinities in Brazil, because under the hypothesis that the subject studied here does not
yet constitute a structured research field, lacking significant theoretical or methodological cohesion, I
carried out a bibliometric study on the subject "black masculinities" in Brazilian scientific journals
ranked CAPES Qualis A. The bibliometrics comprised 685 texts, published between 2013 and 2023,
submitted to a series of filters, resulting in a selection of 56 scientific articles of greater relevance and
academic performance, from which bibliographic and textual metadata were extracted. The results
point to a growth in the topic in the highest-ranking journals in the Qualis CAPES system, but it still
has no significant theoretical cohesion, although it is possible to notice a certain prevalence of the
theoretical framework of feminist studies, and methodological practices from the research fields of
education. There is a small group of male researchers responsible for promoting dossiers, co-authored
research and other forms of promoting the subject in academic circles, and in general, the number of
male researchers on the subject has increased, surpassing the number of female researchers on the
subject, especially after 2019.