Quando as ancestrais narram a expansão da cidade: o caso do bairro Benedito Bentes em Maceió-AL sob uma perspectiva genderizada e racializada

Abstract

From the understanding that structural sexism and racism still govern capitalist society, as well as from the intersectional perspective, we understand that the narratives of black women who experienced the urban design policies of Maceió city, and the right and the non-right to the city, can show us how exclusion policies socio-territorial inequalities affect mostly black and peripheral women. Thereby, based on the assumption that the research subject historically starts from a hegemonic logic - that is, white, male and heterosexual - this article aims to subvert colonialist logics, starting from a central methodology that aims to make use of the narratives of black women to understand the urban expansion policies and public space configurations in the Benedito Bentes district in Maceió/AL city. The district is the largest in the state - both in population numbers and in territorial dimensions, originated in the mid-1980s with Benedito Bentes 1 Housing Complex construction and is composed mostly of black women.