Colhendo os cacos dos corações no olho do furacão

Mães enlutadas sobrevivendo a pandemia e vivendo o Black Lives Matter

Abstract

In recent years, Rio Grande do Norte has been among the Brazilian states with the highest rate of
homicides against young people, with the majority of people murdered being men, blacks and
poor people. Starting from this social problem and considering that women are the main
responsible for the care of these subjects, seeking daily ways to safeguard them from the risk of
death, in my master's research I tried to understand what are the perceptions of public safety and
the strategies for maintaining life of young blacks that “mothers” who had already lost a “son”
adopt so that other wards with the same profile do not die. To carry out the dissertation, an
ethnography was made of the mothering relationship of six women who live in a region of the
city of Parnamirim-RN with problems of urban violence since the end of the 90s. understand how
mothers deal with such a social configuration, with special emphasis on the recent changes in the
world due to the coronavirus pandemic and the international struggle for the lives of black people.
In this work, I propose to deepen reflections on how these women were rebuilding their world
and their families amid the mourning of the loss of a child and the two events of great
international impact mentioned above.