Author:

Elanir de Moraes Ribeiro

Abstract:

The dissertation analyzes the presence and the performance of black women in the representation politics in the State of Rio de Janeiro, taking as base of comparison the two last elections, 2002 and 2006. In these elections the candidates to the positions of state deputy consider themselves, of representative and, in the case of the election of the year of 2006, also the dispute for the senator position. The work aims at to insert itself in a scene ampler than it is of the representation the politics black and, feminine miniature quantitatively in the country. Thus, the problematic one analyzed is the incorporation or not of flags feminists and anti-racists for the candidates. The instruments used for this analysis had been the Gratuitous Schedule of Electoral Propaganda of these two elections and the interviews with black candidates who had participated of the qualitative research. From this optics, pragmatic questions are considered that involve the search for the election and the gender perspectives that if they insert in the field of the electoral dispute, a traditionally busy space for white men. The dissertation concludes indicating that the evidence and the racial recognition are shy in electoral disputes – what does not happen with the gender perspective -, but does not mean the negation of these.