NECROMATERNIDADE: Da dor à resistência pelos afetos [bio]políticos

Abstract

The present work proposes to analyze the motherhood of the black woman, a study based on an ethnography carried out in a large city in the Northeast Region that dialogues with the literature of writings by black theorists. This is a decolonial analysis of motherhood reflected in an anthropological study with families, children and their mothers imprisoned in a closed regime. Motherhood is discussed in its social pain, in the difficulties of experiencing the affection of maternal love, understood in a historical way under the pillar of colonialism that borders social relations fraught with structural racism. Motherhood is understood in this work as a social construct, based on patriarchy, a social destiny for white women. The history marked by colonialism leads to black women, domestic services or the eroticization of the body, disqualifying the black woman for motherhood. Based on ethnography and on the theory that is based on the analysis of the history of colonialism, the concept of necromaternity was constructed in this work, as the State's biopolitics to black mothers that promotes obstacles to the right to exercise motherhood, the social death of the function mother, the physical death of her children or her own death. In other words, who can and who cannot be a mother. In this context, necromaternity dialogues with the necropolitics of Achille Mbembe (2018) and with the necrofance of Renato Noguera (2020) and, I still evoke necroyouth, understanding as the death practices carried out by the State against adolescents and young adults. In this study, the State is personified by having two hands: one that caresses its constituted citizens [the hegemonic categories]; another, who stones, kills the destitute, those who are made invisible