Intersectionality and the crossroads of epistemic violence in musicvideo Mandume
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2019.213.12Abstract
This paper discusses the music video Mandume (Emicida feat. Drik Barbosa, Amiri, Rico Dalasam, Muzzike and Raphão Alaafin, directed by Gabi Jacob, 2016), grounded by the theoretical and methodological basis of intersectionality. This approach is evoked by the rappers themselves on the music video, by narrating their experiences of the crossroads of their social identities as axes of oppression, exclusion and epistemic violence. For this, we present a brief investigation on the elaboration of intersectionality in the context of social movements and its later incorporation into academic knowledge, relating the American Black feminists’ contributions to the Brazilian production on this matter. On that basis, we discuss the rappers’ witness accounts, allowing intersectionality to show its potentiality and the contradictions on the music video as a whole.
Keywords: Intersectionality. Racism. Black feminism.
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