Intersectionality of violence, discrimination and resistance

outsourced worker women in cleaning and conservation

Abstract

Abstract: The intersectional perspective of the categories gender, race and class is approached in this article, from the deepening of his theoretical debate transdisciplinar and epistemic. It recovers its origins, its elaboration by Latin American intellectuals and its employment in analysis regarding the majority presence of poor black women in the outsourced function of cleaning and conservation in the public and private sector, having as a case study an autarchy, the University of Brasília (UnB), from 2011 to 2013. The result of the articulation between several systems of power and the integrality of the identity markers generates the unveiling of a dynamics of nameless and invisible violence and discrimination, which complicate the inequalities of our social relations and question current paradigms in social theory and politics of intervention. Finally, the positive dimension of intersectionality is highlighted, since unexpected forms of resistance and confrontation emerge in the same movement of oppression and exploitation in the middle of this group of women.