Mujeres afrouruguayas en el contexto del Primer Congreso Nacional de Mujeres del Uruguay (1936)

• Main Author: Mónica García Martínez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Científico y Tecnológico-CONICET, Mendoza & Universidad Nacional de La Pampa 2018-12-01
• Series: Corpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana
• Subjects: Afro-Uruguayans; women; congress; intersectionality
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/corpusarchivos/2613

Afro-Uruguayan women have participated in various political activities with other women. One of these actions was their presence in the First National Congress of Women of Uruguay, held in Montevideo in 1936. In their representation, the delegates Iris Cabral and Maruja Pereira exposed their proposals and shared all the activities of the meeting. They also connected with other organized women, such as Clementina Gómez who was a member of the Democratic Feminist Party. The Afro-Uruguayan press covered this participation with the notes of two of its columnists, who highlighted the meritorious action of the "black woman". In these mentions, from the observation of the press of their community, the intersectionality of Afro-Uruguayan women is notorious as women and as Afro-descendants. The reporters that covered the news of their participation pointed to identity elements of the Afro-Uruguayan women that were different from those of other women in the country. In this article we will approach the identities of the Afro-Uruguayan woman: her Uruguayan woman side and her "black woman" side. In turn, some of the connections they had with other women will be shown, placing them in their historical context and taking the First National Congress of Women of Uruguay as their main event.