Matrilineality is solar

afroreferenced strengths in Beyoncé

Abstract

In Afrocentric situations and perceptions, matrilineality presents itself as the locus par excellence of this dynamic that understands the mother as a central character in the constitution of identities and Afro-references as a phenomenon of gestation and nourishment of solar potencies. This article, which comes from the monograph "ENTRE COLMEIAS & QUILOMBOS: quando intelectualidade negra e arte se encontram" (BETWEEN COLMEAS & QUILOMBOS: when black intellectuality and art meet), focuses on the manifestations of motherhood and matrilineality in the music of the multi-artist Beyoncé. We focus on the works LEMONADE (2016) and THE GIFT/BLACK IS KING (2019; 2020), in order to understand how they assume matrilineality in the conception of systemic alternatives for black people who, with these musical productions, achieve yet another breath of resistance in the face of the logics of Eurocentric and Western definitions of being and being. The article thus interweaves discussions of Afrocentricity with anthropology, while methodologically using content analysis to understand the matripotential dimensions of the songs.