Black feminisms

Seminar 1962

Chair: CLACSO
Coordination: Rosa Campoalegre Septien (CIPS, Cuba) and Claudia Miranda (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Home: 30 / 09 / 2019 | Registration: 04/02/2019 al 27/09/2019

Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.

Payment methods
If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:

Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment BEFORE 17/09/2019: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

Course presentation:

We began this seminar within the context of the International Decade for People of African Descent, with the intention of going beyond it. Our seminar is part of a strategic project to develop a representative set of demands for academic and political training, which includes racialized women as interlocutors and direct agents of knowledge production.

Black feminisms constitute the raison d'être and foundation of the seminar. From this perspective, the teaching staff brings together Afro-feminist academic activists, members of the CLACSO Working Group “Afro-descendants and Counter-Hegemonic Proposals.” Rosa Campoalegre (Cuba), Anny Ocooró (Colombia), and Claudia Miranda (Brazil) will share this space. The seminar is distinguished by the powerful and beautiful voice of Black women, interpreting, narrating, and transforming their own ancestral history.

The seminar encompasses Black feminisms, taking into account their complexity, and defines them as a critical theory, field of action, place of enunciation, ethical stance, and historical project of struggle. They are considered in the plural, based on the diversity of their contexts, social heterogeneity, and strategies for combating racism.

Multiple reasons justify the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) establishing a virtual seminar dedicated to Black feminisms. The first of these is related to the very nature and historical significance of CLACSO, which has become a global network of critical thought with a strong feminist presence.

Contents:

Black feminisms as a process: the invisible emerges
Race and racism: The contributions of Black feminism to the anti-racist and anti-colonial struggle
The intersectional perspective
Black women's movement in Latin America and the Caribbean
Political platform of women leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean in the face of the International Decade for People of African Descent
Black feminisms and the political, pedagogical and spiritual dimensions: activism of Afro-Brazilian women
The “Saint Mothers”: Political-organizational dimensions and struggle for recognition in Brazil
Cuba: Black women, voices and silences in resistance
Epistemological disputes: Research on networks of Black women
Comparative analysis: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Cuba: looking from the perspective of Black feminisms

General Bibliography of the Seminar

Curiel, Ochy 2007 “The contributions of Afro-descendant women to feminist theory and practice. De-universalizing the subject “Women””, In Maria Luisa Femenias (Comp.), Profiles of Ibero-American Feminism, vol. III. (Buenos Aires: Catálogos).
Jabardo, Mercedes (ed) 2012 Black Feminisms. An Anthology. (Madrid: Traficante de sueños).
Carneiro, Sueli 2003 Blackening feminism.
Bonilla Silva, Eduardo 2011 “What is racism? Towards a structural interpretation”. In: debates on citizenship and racial policies in the Black Americas. (Cauca: National University of Colombia and University of Valle.
Carneiro, Sueli. 2003 “The color of feminism in Brazil.”
Crenshaw, Kimberly 2002 Document for the meeting of specialists in aspects of racial discrimination related to gender”, (Florianopolis: Feminist Studies) year 10.
Viveros Vigoya, Mara 2016 “Intersectionality: a situated approach to domination”. In Feminist Debate 52, (Bogotá: National University of Colombia)pp. 1-17.
Curiel, Ochy 2002 Essentialist Identities or Construction of Political Identities: The Dilemma of Black Feminists. Other Perspectives [online] 2002, 2 (December): [Accessed: January 31, 2019] Available at: ISSN 1317-5904
Gonzalez, Lélia 1988 A political-cultural category of Amefricanidade. Tempo Brasileiro, 92/93 (January/June 1988): 69-82.
Curiel, Ochy 2007 The contributions of Afro-descendant women to feminist theory. De-universalizing the subject “Women”. (Buenos Aires: Profiles of Ibero-American Feminism) vol. III Catalogues.
Campoalegre, Rosa 2017 Beyond the Decade of People of African Descent in Campoalegre, R. and Bidaseca, K (eds). Beyond the International Decade of People of African Descent. (Buenos Aires: CLACSO).
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean 2018 Afro-descendant women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Debts of equality. (Santiago de Chile: ECLAC).
Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women. Political platform of women leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean for the decade. In Campoalegre (ed.) Afro-descendants. Voices in resistance. (Buenos Aires: CLACSO/CIPS).
Carneiro, Sueli 2003 Women in movement in (São Paulo:Advanced Studies) 17 (49).
Neto, Maria. I. D 2003 The door, the bridge and the network: reflections to think about (the concept of network and the concept of community) In Neto, MARIA.ID and Pedro, RM RL. Weaving development. Knowledge, gender, social ecology. (Rio de Janeiro: Mauad Editora).
Fields, Zuleica. DP 2011 From Mãe de Santo to Mulher: Invenção e Reinvenção de Papéis. (São Paulo: Mandrágora Magazine), v. 17, p. 17-37.
Cavas, Claudio. and Neto, MI 2017 A black diaspora: how women recreate religion through "imagined" Africa in the Brazil of all saints. (Santa Catarina: Fazendo gênero).
Rubiera, Deysi and Inés María Martiautu (comps.) 2011 Afrocubanas.History, thought and cultural practices (Havana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales).
Collins, Patricia Hill 2016 Learning with an outsider within: a sociological significance of black feminist thought. (Society and State Magazine) – Volume 31 Number 1 Janeiro/April.
Miranda, Claudia 2016 Afro-Brazilian intellectuals and their contributions for a feminist post-colonial critique.
Campoalegre, Rosa 2018 Black Feminisms in a Decolonial Key: Approaches, Tensions and Futures from Cuba. (Bilbao: Cubainforma) Available at www cubinforma.tv.
Ocoró, Anny and Alves, Maria José de Jesús 2018 Negritudes and Africanities in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Uberlandia: Ribeirão Gráfica e Editora).Vol 2.
Segato, Rita Laura 2015 The Black Oedipus: Coloniality and Foreclosure of Gender and Race in The Critique of Coloniality in Eight Essays and an Anthropology on Demand. (Buenos Aires: Prometeo).

FAQ

What do I need to take a CLACSO virtual seminar?

The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:

Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
Internet access.
Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages are Spanish and Portuguese.

What is the length of a CLACSO virtual seminar? What is the total number of hours?

The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 90 hours of dedication will be credited.

What is the work modality and dynamics?

A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.