Djamila Ribeiro: 3 fundamental books

Djamila Ribeiro (1980) is a Brazilian philosopher, writer, academic and social activist, known mainly through her work as a theoretician and activist of black feminism.

Growing more and more notorious, her works focused on racial and gender questões become essential to us tempos that we live:

1. Little Anti-racist Manual (2019)

Angela Davis, a member of two Black Panthers and an inescapable North American activist, once stated that "No racist society, it is not enough not to be racist. It is necessary to be anti-racist. "

To work Little Anti-racist Manual, winner of Prêmio Jabuti, is a short and shocking reading that reflects on the structural racism that persists in Brazilian society. Starting from a rich research that cites various sources, the author elaborated a series of practical instructions for combat racial discrimination.

Djamila explains that what is in focus here is not individual attitudes, but rather a set of discriminatory social practices that directly influence the ways in which our society is organized.

Not so, there are several steps that we can all take to build a less unequal world:

Movements of black people have for years debated or racism as a fundamental structure of social relations, creating inequalities and abysses. Or racism is, therefore, a system of oppression that denies directives, in no simple terms of an individual. Recognizing the structural nature of racism can be paralyzing. In the end, how to face such a big monster? However, we should not be intimidated. An urgent and anti-racist practice is given more daily attitudes.

To begin, we need to inform ourselves and become aware of the issue, since many times the oppression is silenced and normalized. To a philosopher he appoints that he is vital understand the history of Brazil The desumanization of two black individuals that was promoted during the colonial period.

Same depois da abolition, various discriminatory behaviors will remain in the country: for example, Afro-Brazilians continue to have less access to education, being also mantid out of many spaces of power.

For some of us, it is necessary reconfirm your privileges Two of us benefit from this system and claim a greater diversity of local work and study, supporting affirmative measures.

In a country whose majority of the population is black, these are the individuals who are most likely to suffer from police violence and the severity of the judiciary, and are also more imprisoned and dead.

These given precisely will lead us to question culture that we consume romanticized narratives about miscigenação e a colonização no Brasil. For such, it is recommended to read black writers and thinkers, Cujo conhecimento so many times it was turned off two canons in the academy.

This is configured as an important instrument to understand the ways in which racism is entered into our society or that we can do to destroy it.

2. Quem Tem Medo do Feminismo Negro? (2018)

A work that brings together an autobiographical reflection and also several chronicles of the author reaching a great succession and helped to popularize or her work within the Brazilian panorama.

Alicerçado nas her experiences and observations of her inquanto an Afro-Brazilian woman, or free and crossed hair conceito da intersectionality, raised by North American feminist Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Or conceito sublinha the ways as opressões raciais, of class and of genre they empower each other, generating a higher social vulnerability for some individuals, among the black women.

We are strong because the State is omission, because we need to face a violent reality. Internalizing guerreira, na verdade, could be a better way to die. Recognize weaknesses, doors and know how to ask for help in ways of restoring denied humanities. Subalternized nem nem guerreira natural: human. I learned that recognizing subjectivities is part of an important transformation process.

Looking at a retrospective about her path as a citizen and a militant, Djamila tells that she did not identifies as a predominantly white feminism that does not consider other experiences and narratives.

Through references such as bell hooks, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, the author has discovered the perspectives of black feminism. Assim, she sublimates to importance two multiple speeches and knowledge, in opposition to a supposedly universal vision (and branca).

As chronicles present I do not fight against numerous manifestations of racist patriarchy, reflecting on various contemporary events. They deal with themes such as humor based on offensive stereotypes, or myth of racism verse and objectification of Afro-Brazilian women, among others.

No text that gives title to publication, a militant recovers history of black feminism as a movement that emerged in the United States during the 1970s.

She mentions some figures like Sojourner Truth who do not know how to understand that such experiences, even among women, could be quite different.

As Djamila Ribeiro synthesizes, em jeito de conclusão:

It is necessary to understand once and for all that there are several women contained in it to be women and to break with the universalism, which is excluded.

3. Or what is the place of Fala? (2017)

Part of the collection Feminisms Plurais, coordinated by Djamila Ribeiro na editora Pólen, a publicação tornou o nome da autho mais conhecido by Brazilian public hair.

A work começa drawing a portrait gives "invisibility He gives a black woman as a political category ", appointing or dulling his perspectives and speeches.

Later, the author goes on to explain that the concept of "place of fala" is quite large and can assume different meanings and connotations, depending on its context.

In a fairly synthesized way, we can understand it as a "starting point" to face the world: a location in the social structure where each um is.

Djamila appoints the urgency to "understand how or the social place that certain groups occupy restrict opportunities". Quem tem, ou não, power to fail (to be heard) is a question that has been widely discussed since Foucault.

Numa society that is still structured by racism and or sexism, remains a "unique vision", colonialist and limiting.

A militant defends that this vision needs to be challenged, through diverse discourses and attentive to subjectivities:

To promote a multiplicity of voices or that is wanted, above all, it is broken as an authorized and unique speech, which is intended to be universal. Seek-se here, especially, to fight to break as the regime of discursive authorization.

Quem é Djamila Ribeiro?

Born on August 1, 1980, Djamila Ribeiro belongs to a family marked by Lutas sociais. Her pai, Joaquim José Ribeiro dos Santos, was a member of the black movement and two founders of the Communist Party in Santos.

At the age of 18, when she began to work at the Casa da Cultura do Mulher Negra, she began or was a militia against racial and gender discrimination.

Little depois, she joined the Federal University of São Paulo, where she graduated in Philosophy and attained a Master's degree in Political Philosophy, with a focus on feminist theory.

Since then, Djamila has worked as a university professor and has held a position as Secretary of Human Rights and Citizenship of São Paulo. Além disso, the item stood out in the field of literature, being also a colunist Elle Brazil e da Folha de São Paulo.

Its presence in social networks is also quite strong, faced as a ferramenta of athleticism and public discussion. At present, a contemporary thinker is considered a voice of relief in the denunciation of violence and inequalities in Brazil.

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