Health care and black women: notes on coloniality, re-existence, and gains

Abstract

Abstract We reflect on Black women’s health as part of a narrative produced by the exercise of coloniality and the forces that contribute toward defining and imposing the place of a subaltern since the objectified and racialized body notion informs it. Black women are represented in the worst health indicators. We propose to look at collective health from the perspective of care as a political, social, and intersubjective technology, in whose encounters with the aesthetic-political body of Black women are traversed by unique exclusion experiences. Moving beyond suffering, we also address agency, resistance, and the construction of an agenda of struggle based on the Black people’s leading roles.