BETWEEN “QUITUTEIRAS” AND BLACK ENTREPRENEURS: THE PRODUCTION OF LIFE IN PERIPHERAL TERRITORIES

The last few decades have been marked by significant advances in expanding access to social rights for the working classes, providing the young Black population with historically constrained opportunities. Nevertheless, the same period was also characterised by the dismantling of labour rights and the emergence of entrepreneurship as a crucial category for the constitution of a set of working experiences among urban periphery youth, whose forms of political affirmation are increasingly related to neoliberal logic. Attendance at training courses to manage their own businesses reflects a significant turn in which women, who were once invisible, are now celebrated both for their empowerment and their potential. Based on a combination of documentary and ethnographic research, with a focus on the dynamics of entrepreneurship and a particular focus on the experiences of Black women, this article investigates continuities and discontinuities in the ways in which they produce everyday life.

Keywords
Black women; Labour; Market; Production of life; Peripheral territories