Black Maternities in Digital Journalistic Coverage and Possibilities of Escaping of Controlling Images

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The article aims to address the images that the Brazilian media makes available in relation to black mothers and black motherhood. Based on the assumption that the media constructs “controlling images”, a definition given by Patricia Hill Collins (2019) to indicate a specific gender representation for black people, we identify patterns that the media establishes for black maternities presented by the news and, with a methodological proposal also based on Collins (2016), we analyze the escape of controlling images by Bruna Silva, mother of Marcos Vinicius, a boy who died in 2018. Controlling images solidify matrices of domination, but we also emphasize how these images can be interrupted through the self-definition of black women and how this can reverberate in digital news coverage.

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Nealla Valentim Machado, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Professora do Departamento de Comunicação Social da Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso, Doutoranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação de Estudos da Cultura Contemporânea da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (ECCO/UFMT), Jornalista graduada pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), membro do grupo Ciclo – Comunicação, Política e Cidadania.

Tamires Ferreira Coêlho, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Comunicação Social e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da UFMT, Doutora em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, líder do grupo Ciclo – Comunicação, Política e Cidadania, coordenadora do Observatório Pauta Gênero.

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2022-04-19

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): Janeiro/Abril

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