Rompendo os silêncios sobre o perfil do lazer da população negra no Brasil

Abstract

The lack of studies on leisure and blackness is the situation that attracted our attention because it reinforces, within the academy, the racism that makes scientific productions on this subject invisible. This consideration denounces the existence of the epistemicide that reinforces the cultural erasure of blackness and reaffirms the construction of a single story in which whiteness is at the center. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze the leisure experience of black men and women from the data collected in the 'Leisure in Brazil' survey. Data collection for this study was carried out by means of individual interviews, through a sample survey, using a structured questionnaire with open and closed-ended questions. The sample size was 2,400 interviews in Brazil. We realized the need to produce studies about the leisure of the black population, above all, studies that can interrogate the circulating hegemonic knowledge, constituted as a single story. Even though people can create similar desires about leisure, the experiences and barriers imposed on black people, especially black women, constitute features that need to be discussed.