The Black Coalition for Rights in Brazil: An Intersectional Alliance

Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa (Freie Universität Berlin)

This project assumes that intersectional collaborations capable of articulating struggles for justice are both a necessity and a challenge for contemporary politics. To discuss this more general question, the project studies a concrete case: the Black Coalition for Rights created in 2019 in Brazil to fight against racism, sexism, as well as for democracy and social justice. Besides successfully managing political (in)commensurabilities, the Coalition is also emblematic for its ability to combine aesthetics and politics in its struggles for justice. Equally important for the purposes of this Research Unit is the capacity of the Coalition to integrate within its struggles diverse fields of political action – from grassroots collectives to the parliamentary field, from the national state to the international arena.