Psychosocial Impacts of Racism on the Mental Health of Black Women
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This article proposes a debate on the mental health of black women. To this end, we present a brief discussion of the historical trajectory of these women, from the perspective of intersectionality, structural racism and whiteness in Brazilian society. The general objective is to discuss the possible psychosocial impacts of racism that contribute to the psychological illness of black women. They developed countless forms of resistance with the slave regime and the post-abolition period, but the cruel context in which they are inserted is sickening and has profound impacts. In Africa, they were great merchants, traders, leaders in different areas of knowledge, which went against the colonizer's values. We conclude that racism and sexism, added to the colonization process, created a specific condition of oppression for these women, generating illnesses that need to be discussed.
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