Uno nunca regresa como sale: a viagem das palenqueras com os doces

Abstract

This article results from an ethnography during the period experienced by seven black women from San Basilio de Palenque, who, due to their work activity with sweets, were in Bucaramanga, a city located in Santander, Colombia. In this paper I try to understand his social agency and the consequences of this experience. The attempt is to follow the movement of women in circulation with sweets, and thus think of the flows, displacements, interactions and meanings of this activity in terms of gender relations, work, race and social class pointing the trade as the experience of struggle, work and survival of black women in the African diaspora.

Keywords: palenqueras; race; work; anthropology of race relations;