The epistemology of feminist thought through an Afroperspective.
The present work aims to demonstrate the main contours and principles of an epistemology that addresses feminism and gender studies through an afroperspective. From the diagnosis of maafa, a Swahili term designating the black holocaust and the consequent disgrace that afflicts the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora after European colonization and black slavery, the work identifies the systematic epistemic racism that historically affects modern rationality, slipping into gender studies that undermine, erase and make invisible the knowledge production of non-white women, women in the Global South. By exposing the principles and characteristics of the epistemology of black feminist thought based on the studies produced by Patricia Hill Collins in dialogue with black feminist thinkers - Grada Kilomba, Angela Davis, bell hooks and Lélia Gonzales among others - the work is ready to show how these principles and characteristics of black feminist thought constitute criteria for knowledge validation claims present throughout the political practice of the role of women in the Global South, which is born as a resistance of this group of women to the matrix of intersectional oppression that encompasses race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, age, among other categories. These knowledge validation claims arising from the political action of women in the Global South establish a consistent interface with the specialized knowledge produced in the academy, thus constituting as important elements to be worked by political philosophy when referring to the structural problems of contemporary times.