Racism and sexism in Brazil: what does Lélia Gonzalez's feminism teach us?

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection on Lélia Gonzalez's contribution to the construction of a political project in Brazil in which racial and gender violence, with its various intersectionality's, is no longer a reality in the country. To this end, I investigate the fundamental relationship between racism, sexism and the myth of a racial democracy. To do so, I review the denunciation made by Lélia about the classics of the Brazilian social thought, and her appropriation of psychoanalytic and Afro-diasporic theories to face the problem.