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DANTAS, Candida Maria Bezerra et al. Community leadership women and the quilombola struggle. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.54, pp.394-413. ISSN 2175-1390.

This study aims to rescue and analyze the processes of struggle for the recognition of quilombola communities in Rio Grande do Norte, with emphasis on the process of constitution of women as political and community leaders. To this end, we carried out participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 07 women leaders during the Meeting of Quilombolas Communities of RN, in 2018. The interviews were transcribed in full and we proceeded to content analysis, using Thematic Analysis modality. The results reveal institutional obstacles to the recognition process, the precarious living conditions and access to public policies, the fragility of community support, racism, sexism, the overlapping of domestic, agricultural and community functions. Thus, for women to take up the quilombola struggle represents a double battle: on the one hand, the recognition of the community itself as quilombola; and, on the other hand, the recognition of their place as black women, producing confrontations with gender oppression and racism in its various manifestations.

Palavras-chave : Black Feminisms; Black Women; Policy; Quilombola.

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