Ilú Obá de Min: cultura negra e saúde mental da mulher

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the experience of women's participation. black women in the Bloco Afro Ilú Obá De Min, a project developed by the São Paulo association, without for profit, Ilú Obá De Min - Education, Culture and Black Art, in order to understand if the involvement of these women with the Block influenced the production of their health mental. Thus, this work is based on the theoretical-methodological principles of Brazilian Psychosocial Care, and contemporary works that address the relationship between the social markers of gender and ethnic-racial in psychological distress, starting from the intersectional feminist epistemology. In this theoretical perspective, we sought to articulate the mental health, gender and race concepts. Using the cartography method, it was followed the procedural nature of the participation of these women in the association Ilú Obá De Min. cartographies of these participation processes were produced, with an emphasis on the interface between health. mental and culture. And, the concept of black culture, present in the Afro Block Ilú Obá De Min, as an assumption that this sociocultural category can positively interfere in the mental health of black women. From the development of research and data produced, it was possible to identify clues that indicate processes of production and care of its mental health, by the participants, who are built through participation in Ilú Obá De Min.