National Meeting of Black Women
The first National Meeting of Black Women (Portuguese: I Encontro Nacional de Mulheres Negras, I ENMN) took place from 2-4 December 1988, in Valença, Rio de Janeiro, with 450 women from 17 Brazilian states.[1] This meeting stemmed in part from a desire for greater solidarity and organizational structure among black Brazilian women, especially Fluminense women who had previously organized the First State Meeting of Black Women of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: I Encontro Estadual de Mulheres Negras of Rio de Janeiro) in 1987.
Meeting
The National Meeting challenged some sectors of the feminist movement and some male leaders of the black movement. The meeting occurred in the Brazilian city of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro.[2] Attendees from Rio de Janeiro had also participated in the IX Encontro Neminista, in Garanhuns, where some noted that racial concerns were short-changed in discussions. According to Sandra Bello, questions of class and race were prominent. Many feminists did not accept the active participation of black women, including their discussion and representation of issues concerning the favelas; white feminists were challenged at the state-level meetings about their control of "quotas of participation of black women in the Meetings".[2]
References
- "Encontro Feminista Latino-Americano e do Caribe: Negros tempos para o Feminismo" [Feminist Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean: Black times for Feminism] (in Portuguese). Centro Feminista de Estudos e Assessoria. 31 August 2005. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- DA SILVA, Joselina (2014). I Encontro Nacional de Mulheres Negras: o pensamento das feministas negras na década de 1980, In: PEREIRA, A. M. (Org.); SILVA, J. (Org.). O Movimento de Mulheres Negras: escritos sobre os sentidos de democracia e justiça social no Brasil (1 ed.). Belo Horizonte: Editora Nandyala.