Intersectionality in the archive: Black and Feminist Brazilian Collections

Documentary producers Chico Piauí & Jacira and Reginaldo Bispo & Margarida created archives that deal with important aspects of the Brazilian black movements of the last 50 years. These collections are comprised of documents from their experiences and insertions in the Unified Black Movement and other organizations, thus providing an important overview of the agenda of struggles against racism, police violence and racial discrimination, the fight against civil-military dictatorship and for the return of democracy in Brazil, as well as the right to social remembrance. They also deal with the experience of building democracy and defending the constitutional rights of the black population after 1988. This project will work with these two collections as well as The Women's Information Center collection, which consists of documents from women's movements, feminist movements and black feminism in Brazil, in dialogue with other similar experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean and the USA, among other parts of the world. The CIM collection has also been built up since the late 1970s, documenting, from the perspective of black and non-black women's movements, agendas of struggles similar to those of the other two collections. Together, these archives hold a plethora of materials, including posters, minutes of meetings, pamphlets, visual and textual documentation that makes it possible to tell still unknown aspects of the histories of these social movements.