Afro Fashion: Political Bodies And Black Feminism

Corpos Políticos e Feminismo Negro

Abstract

This article presents fashion as a phenomenon that transcends generations and reflects on the political and social engagement of black women. The relations of fashion with the sociopolitical struggle of black bodies before patriarchal, white and classist Brazilian society. Through bibliographic research, one seeks to understand and present the processes that determine the affirmation of the identity of black women and the difficulties in positioning themselves in the face of racial discrimination to which they are submitted. The understanding of the existence of plural political bodies that express themselves stimulating new models of subjectivity and identity, relating and addressing their constitution using cultural and political elements present in fashion. From fashion and monopolistic capitalism, it was possible to identify and relate black feminism and its struggles for the valorization of ethnic-racial subjects who use fashion as a tool of social claims, thus determining black fashion as a political struggle.