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.
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