BLACK WOMEN: DECOLONIZING NARRATIVES

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Authors

  • Regiane Oliveira dos Santos Federal University of São Carlos
  • Leonardo Cardoso Portela Câmara Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56579/prxis.v3i2.2630

Keywords:

Black Women, Racism, Colonial Trauma

Abstract

This qualitative study, grounded in the Free Association Narrative Interview and psychoanalysis, aims to testify how structural racism shapes the trajectory of Black women working as domestic workers and nannies for white families. The results, based on the life story of the interviewee, identified two thematic categories of analysis that revealed transgenerational psychoanalytic patterns: Expressions of Colonial Superiority, which articulates Fanonian dehumanization and Ferencz’s communicational shock of “language confusion”; and Oscillation of the Black Mother, which exposes the festive–subservient ambivalence described by Lélia Gonzalez. It is argued that giving voice to memories and re-signifying colonial narratives promotes subjective decolonization, opening pathways for therapeutic practices that restore care, autonomy, and recognition to Black women.

Author Biographies

Regiane Oliveira dos Santos, Federal University of São Carlos

Master’s student at the Federal University of São Carlos, conducting research in the field of racial relations in psychoanalysis, CAPES scholarship holder.

Leonardo Cardoso Portela Câmara, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Psychoanalyst, Associate Professor II at the Department of Psychology (DPsi/UFSCar), permanent professor in the Graduate Program in Psychology (PPGPsi/UFSCar), Master and PhD in Psychoanalytic Theory (PPGTP/UFRJ), member of the Brazilian Sándor Ferenczi Research Group (GBPSF) and of The International Sándor Ferenczi Network (ISFN), author of the book "Ferenczi and Psychoanalysis: Body, Expression, and Impression" (EdUFSCar, 2021).

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Published

2025-10-05

How to Cite

Santos, R. O. dos, & Câmara, L. C. P. (2025). BLACK WOMEN: DECOLONIZING NARRATIVES. PRÁXIS EM SAÚDE , 3(2), 01–08. https://doi.org/10.56579/prxis.v3i2.2630