Uma historiadora Transatlântica: coletânea de textos de Maria Beatriz Nascimento

Abstract

It is with joy that we present to the interested public and scholars of Beatriz Nascimento's intellectual production a collection of texts that demonstrate the maturation of her ideas about Black studies in Brazil. In this way, the publication contributes to the circulation and dissemination of the work of a figure with significant importance for Brazilian social thot and for the revision of national historiography. Among them, "Por uma história do homem negro," published in 1974 in the magazine Vozes, marks the epistemological rupture with the studies practiced by the Brazilian intellectual field at that time. Next, we present "Black and Racism," also published in 1974, in which she denounces, thru her personal experience, the forms of racism suffered by the Black population. "Alternative social systems organized by blacks: from quilombos to favelas" is the report of research funded by the Ford Foundation and conducted in African countries, where the author seeks to establish the idea of historical continuity between African settlements and black organizations in Brazil. Next, we have "Awareness of Afro-Brazilian Culture: the Concept of Quilombo and the Culture of Black Resistance," a text produced for the cultural extension course at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), in which the experience of the quilombo is discussed as an ontological (concrete) and epistemological (ideological) fact. Finally, "The Black Woman in Brazil and Love" reveals one of the dramas, in her view, most difficult for the Black woman to experience: loneliness and the absence of love due to subjection to a continuous process of sexualization.