Nostalgia for enslavement relations in discourses about (but not from) housemaids

Abstract

Abstract The article analyzes the discourses on domestic workers by Brazilian employers on two online social networks. We have sought to understand from the speeches, what relationships these have with race, gender, and social class categories. The speeches analyzed in this paper strengthen the gender inequalities concerning domestic labor and present classists and racists ideologies that disseminate the inferiority of the Black and the impoverished people while manifesting a nostalgia for enslavement relations.

Keywords

• Housemaids
• Race
• Gender
• Class
• Enslavement