Lélia Gonzalez: the confluence between academic life and activism

Abstract

The present work is a construction derived from discussions and analyzes on contemporary social and political thought and proposes to analyze the life and work of the thinker Lélia Gonzalez, using a transversal approach from the perspectives of race, gender and coloniality, which conforms our general objective. It is, therefore, understood that the topic under study needs to be systematically articulated in an intersectional way, since that studies on black women carry within them the crossing of different social markers (AKOTIRENE, 2018). This is a qualitative research, anchored in the construction of an applied theoretical framework, thus carrying out a review of the state of the art on this discussion, seeking to interpret the context in which the author was established as a reference in racial and gender studies, but without very rigid research frameworks, what allowed us to go beyond a purely descriptive research. Finally, it’s assumed that an explanatory-argumentative and analytical approach systematically applied to the theme must be combined to other aspects beyond the purely formal means of research, being this the most appropriate way for the development of this study.