Under the aegis of crisis and barbarity

Quilombola Communities and Contemporary Capitalism

Abstract

This article sought to apprehend the constitutive elements of the systemic and structural crisis and its impacts on the lives of different social and ethnic groups, especially in the context of the parliamentary-legal-mediatic coup, instituted in 2016, in Brazilian society. Furthermore, it was necessary to highlight the advance of neo-fascism and the extreme right in Brazil and in the world, to lay bare the repercussions of the cyclical crisis of capital and the social dismantling in the life and work of quilombola communities, especially black women. From a theoretical-methodological approach centered on the field of black and materialist feminist debates, the article reveals a critical understanding of the intersection between racism and sexism as mainstays of financialized capitalism in contemporary times.