Saúde mental de homens negros: análise interseccional das experiências de quilombolas

Abstract

The black population, especially quilombola, has historically resisted a series of vulnerable factors based on a complex racist system that permeates the entire social fabric in all its dimensions. To be recognized, regarding advances in public policies and the exercise of citizenship, the fundamental role of the Black movement and the various leaders who fought and resisted so that today there are guaranteed rights and a minimum of effectiveness of them. Nevertheless, despite these public policies and recent advances, blacks still occupy, mostly, marginalized spaces, in which assistance and access to rights guaranteed by law are not realized or are not sufficient to address the demographic, social and economic inequalities produced during this process, which has as main element racism. As a result of this marginalization, there is too much scarcity of studies on racism and its repercussions on the mental health of these peoples. This reality tends to be worse among maroon people. This dissertation presents exploratory qualitative research in which men over 18 years of age, quilombola, black (self-declared black and brown) participated, according to ibge classification, from the community of Passagem Velha in Senhor do Bonfim - Bahia, who by signing the Free and Informed Consent Form accept the invitation to participate in the study. Thus, the present study aimed to analyze the relationship between racism and gender in the production of psychic suffering among quilombola people from the rural community of Passagem Velha in Senhor do Bonfim - Bahia. The following categories were found social construction of quilombola masculinity; racial discrimination; the quilombola man and the work; strategies to deal with psychic suffering and to cope with racism. It was concluded that the relationship between racism, class and gender and its implications on the mental health of black men constitutes a conflicting relationship in which the systems of oppression, that is, racism, sexism and social class corroborate for greater exposure to the psychic suffering of these subjects, from their own reports.