Abstract
AbstractThis essay introduces the translation of the text “The Black Woman: A Portrait” by Afro‐Brazilian feminist anthropologist Lélia Gonzalez. She is one of the most celebrated black feminist activist‐scholars in Brazil, and was one of the first black women to receive a Ph.D. in anthropology. In her short life, she traveled extensively around the Americas giving lectures on the plight and resistance of black Brazilians, and was one of the most prolific writers. She has been compared to Angela Davis, and would add Claudia Jones, because of her black left feminist ideas. “The Black Woman: A Portrait” is one of the first essays she published over four decades ago in 1979. The essay focuses on the life of a black woman in Rio de Janeiro, highlights essential elements of Brazilian gendered racialized history, some of which have been well‐documented in the anthropological literature on Brazil written in English. This translation project represents an example of the radical citational practices that the Cite Black Women project proposes.
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