Domestic violence and intersectionality

Abstract

The article aims to analyze domestic violence superimposed with the social marker race, aiming to inquire why black women are the main victims of this type of violence. The research is based on a bibliographic review and will use data from the 2022 Brazilian Yearbook of Public Security. The social category race, contextualized within Portuguese-Iberian colonialism, was decisive in the constitution of the social identity of black women. The social markers of gender, race and class will be analyzed as identity avenues that cross the existence of black women, from an intersectional perspective, based on bell hooks, Carla Akotirene and Lélia Gonzalez.

KEYWORDS: Gender. Race. Domestic Violence.