Deixa a gira girar: rodas de conversas e processos identitários de mulheres negras em diferentes espaços de formação

Abstract

This paper aims at reflecting on the identity processes of black women in contemporaneity. The research had its first steps as a initiative of a number of black women who took the teaching qualification course as part of their high school degree (this course used be named Normal Course) in School of the Center , located in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Understanding this paper as a dialogical process, the reflections contained here approach autobiographical experiences and also the relationship that is established when in contact with these and other black women and their identity processes in contemporaneity which surfaced in conversation circles in different formation spaces. The intention behind this dissertation is to discuss crossings, displacements and other thoughts related to discourses of decolonization, resistance and disobedience, racism, black women and identity throughout this text. Starting with the proposals debated during the meetings of Cultures and Indentities in Daily Life research group of which I am a member - and in the other space times within and out of the Masters course - literature is highlighted as a way of thinking and and seeing daily life, whose encounters constantly produce tension and convergence in the present dialogism and polyphony. Therefore, I aim at establishing dialog with different voices and their statements which echo in this research; the academic studies, the literary readings, the black women I meet, in an attempt of moving towards an epistemic disobedience and necessary decolonizing practices. While I try to write in a way that presents the exchanges that took place in and out of the research, I intend to attach them to a proposal of aesthetic field in relation to the encounters of everyday life and the identity and black culture that have always been present despite the colonial attempts to blind them