The portrait of the burden of black maternity in the works of Carolina Maria de Jesus and the denouncement of violations of rights

Abstract

The social indicators that consider gender, race, class and generation factors as analysis categories in Brazil statistically demarcate the precariousness of the life of poor black women and mothers in this country. In this sense, this work analyzes the works Diário de Bitita e Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada, by Carolina Maria de Jesus (1986; 2006), seeking to relate them to the social problems that revolve around the burden of motherhood, from an intersectional approach, which encompasses the reality of black women, mothers, poor and peripheral women in the face of the ineffectiveness of fundamental rights. For this, the research is based on a qualitative study of a bibliographical nature, based on an interpretative analysis of the works establishing approximations with the field of law, in which we sought to study the works drawing parallels with the bibliographic review and demographic data. related to the particularities of black women. With the analyzes and discussions, it is inferred that the exercise of motherhood in a racist, classist and patriarchal society, combined with the lack of public policies, presents itself as a challenge for the full exercise of citizenship of mothers and their children. omission deprives them of access to fundamental rights.