Political History, Black Movement and Black Feminism

Abstract

Based on the theoretical contribution of the New Political History, envisioning the epistemologies of the South, that is, the political and social struggles of groups and/or social movements, such as the Black Movement and Black Feminism in Brazil, this paper aims to give visibility to black women in Brazilian politics through the life trajectory and legacy of Marielle Franco, analyzing the seeds that blossomed in the 2020 Municipal Elections. According to the Atlas of Violence (2019), organized by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and the Brazilian Public Security Forum (FBSP), in the global context, Brazil is one of the four countries that concentrate 80 % of the murders of activists of Human rights. Considering the murder of councilwoman Marielle Franco and the driver Anderson Pedro Gomes, on March 14, 2018, structural and everyday racism, patriarchy, male chauvinism, among other practices of oppression of modernity/coloniality in contemporary times and the results of the 2020 Municipal Elections, in this text the objects of analysis are: the Marielle Franco Agenda (2020) of the Marielle Franco Institute, and the results of the Municipal Elections (2020), giving visibility to black people, specifically black women, as in Curitiba, capital of Paraná, southern Brazil.