The first National Meeting of Black Women (Portuguese: I Encontro Nacional de Mulheres Negras; ENMN) took place in Brazil from December 2 to December 4, 1988, in Valença, Rio de Janeiro. 450 women from 17 Brazilian states attended.[1] The purpose of this meeting was to foster greater solidarity and organizational structure among black Brazilian women, particularly Fluminense women. Prior to the national meeting, the First State Meeting of Black Women of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: I Encontro Estadual de Mulheres Negras of Rio de Janeiro) occurred in 1987.[2]
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The National Meeting challenged certain sectors of the feminist movement and male leaders of the black movement. It took place in the city of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro.[3] Some of the participants had also attended the IX Encontro Feminista in Garanhuns, where some had been of the opinion that racial concerns were largely absent from the discussions. According to Sandra Bello, issues of class and race were prominently addressed during the meeting. Some feminists were hesitant to accept the active participation of black women, particularly in discussions related to favelas. At state-level meetings, white feminists were questioned about their control over the "quotas of participation of black women in the meetings".
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- ^ "Encontro Feminista Latino-Americano e do Caribe: Negros tempos para o Feminismo" [Feminist Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean: Black times for Feminism] (in Portuguese). Centro Feminista de Estudos e Assessoria. 31 August 2005. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ Rodrigues, Cristiano; Prado, Marco Aurelio (April 2013). "A History of the Black Women's Movement in Brazil: Mobilization, Political Trajectory and Articulations with the State". Social Movement Studies. 12 (2): 158–177. doi:10.1080/1612197x.2012.697613. ISSN 1474-2837. S2CID 144451380.
- ^ DA SILVA, Joselina (2014). I Encontro Nacional de Mulheres Negras: o pensamento das feministas negras na década de 1980, In: PEREIRA, A. M. (Org.); SILVA, J. (Org.). O Movimento de Mulheres Negras: escritos sobre os sentidos de democracia e justiça social no Brasil (1 ed.). Belo Horizonte: Editora Nandyala.
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