Professional Mulatas: Race, Gender and Occupation

Based on a research carried out with a group of black women enrolled in the II Course for Professional Formation of Mulatas, the article recovers and analyses the categories through which the students represent their condition of mulatta and their passing to the condition of professional mulata....

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Main Author:	Sonia Maria Giacomini
Format:	Article
Language:	Spanish
Published:	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2006-01-01
Series:	Revista Estudos Feministas
Subjects:	mulheres negras – profissão, sexualidade, discriminação sexual e racial
Online Access:	https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/8289

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spelling	doaj-503b5179453d49f2981f16982c67b6aa2020-11-24T21:28:26ZspaUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaRevista Estudos Feministas0104-026X1806-95842006-01-011417128Professional Mulatas: Race, Gender and OccupationSonia Maria Giacomini0Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroBased on a research carried out with a group of black women enrolled in the II Course for Professional Formation of Mulatas, the article recovers and analyses the categories through which the students represent their condition of mulatta and their passing to the condition of professional mulata. The mulata, who represents and mediates a Brazilian way of being a woman, sensual and race-mixed, the professional mulata debates herself, permanently, between two poles which are both professional and moral: on the one hand, there is a positive pole, of being a dancer, on the other, there is a threatening and negative one, of being a prostitute.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/8289mulheres negras – profissão, sexualidade, discriminação sexual e racial
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title	Professional Mulatas: Race, Gender and Occupation
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publisher	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
series	Revista Estudos Feministas
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publishDate	2006-01-01
description	Based on a research carried out with a group of black women enrolled in the II Course for Professional Formation of Mulatas, the article recovers and analyses the categories through which the students represent their condition of mulatta and their passing to the condition of professional mulata. The mulata, who represents and mediates a Brazilian way of being a woman, sensual and race-mixed, the professional mulata debates herself, permanently, between two poles which are both professional and moral: on the one hand, there is a positive pole, of being a dancer, on the other, there is a threatening and negative one, of being a prostitute.
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Professional Mulatas: Race, Gender and Occupation

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