“Besides Black, is he Faggot?”: decision-making processes in the professional journey of black homosexuals in mining
Decision-making processes; Gay black men; Life's history
The cis man is the category of gender endorsed with privileges in the binary patriarchal system in force; however, if this man is black and gay, he experiences, twice, the feeling of being marginalized by society. The structural consequences existing in the interaction between these two subordination ways (being black and being gay) considering the context of a category endorsed with social privileges (being a cis man) can be better understood by studying the discriminatory systems' combination and their consequent domination, oppression, and disempowerment. Thus, this work aims to understand such as hegemonic masculinity, racism and homophobia, impact the professional trajectory and the decision-making processes of black gay men, who work in the mining sector in Mariana-MG. In this attempt, the subjects' working life histories will be presented and the main milestones of their trajectories will be analyzed. We used the methodological approach of life history, supported by psychosociology, to understand the violence, suffering, pleasures, social bonds, and impediments in these multidetermined subjects' trajectories. When presenting life reports on how diversity is treated in the labor market, this dissertation also expects to contribute to organizational studies on society and subjectivity. Using a critical approach, this work can also collaborate to understand the discussions on gender, sexuality, and race issues, and a possible relationship with decision-making processes. It is also expected that this dissertation opens paths for future studies of the Administration on black gay men, considering the lack of works in the area that specifically address these individuals. It is intended that the elucidation and the analysis of the research subjects' experiences integrates the choir of works that study the daily violence suffered by blacks and homosexuals in society, believing that knowledge can promote change and the guarantee of egalitarian treatments for every human being.