“Preta, o que há em ti?”: estudo sobre a permanência de professoras negras nos espaços institucionais de educação superior e suas estratégias de resistências

Abstract

This paper discusses institutional racism in higher education institutions, through the mapping carried out by analyzing interviews with black women who work as teachers in public universities,who work as teachers in undergraduate and/or postgraduate courses in human sciences. Based on an attempt to map processes of pain and resistance at work, the research tried to identify the academic institutional space of power-knowledge and the strategies used by black female teachers to deal with feelings of professional loneliness. It prioritized the analysis of two main types of action: those related to the classroom as a form of escape and everyday forms of resistance as political alliances inside and outside the workplace. The study showed how racism and its actions constitute the institutional space, enabling a field of thought and confrontation with structures of violence and racism to be established simultaneously as a locus for the (re)production of racial and gender hostility.