"Como negra que sou, quero a vitória da minha raça": a produção intelectual feminina na imprensa negra paulista (1903–1930)

Abstract

This dissertation studies the intellectual production of black women in the city of São Paulo, between 1903 and 1903, by means of newspapers of paulistas’ black press. Identified as journalistic production written by black people and directed for black people, these journals denounced on their pages the social exclusions suffered by the negros and articulated possible ways to overcome racial prejudices. The strategies mobilized were founded in plural perspectives, as the nationality affirmation and the contributions of negros for the land and the importance of moral and intellectual education as a social insertion form. The black women, in this context, more than ratify the conceptions formulated by black men journalist of these press, printed on them, by means of articles, and literary production, their own perceptions about the ways black people needed to trail in benefit of social inclusion. When they used the quill pen, they triggered discourses related about the black affectivity camp. Emphasizing in their collaborations the loneliness and love themes, these women clarified the link existent between the fight against the racial discrimination and the necessity of black union, not only of intellectual viewpoint, but also emotional.