GENDER AND BODY TO BECOME: DECOLONIAL PROSPECTION FROM BRAZILIAN BLACK FEMINISM

This text results from exploratory research that intends to locate the gender and body treatment in the constitution of Brazilian identity (or identities) mediated by the seminal writings of three Brazilian black feminists: Beatriz Nascimento, Neusa Santos and Sueli Carneiro. In the discursive panorama observed, different discipline sorganize the authors' thought, tending to orient plural argumentative approaches about body, gender and identity. In addition to the classic difficulties derived from structural racism, there are disputes inherent to the academic field with their specificities. Another point is to think of class as a base element, although the could be a possible antagonist to black feminism. The set of texts are products of the second half of the twentieth and twenty-first century, the result of militancy and academic rise.The expression and interpretations of black feminisms to the black problem in Brazil demonstrates a decolonial potential. Returning to black epistemology amplifies the influence of black of these writings.