Mulheres Negras, Trabalhadoras e Mães: a maternidade e as estratégias de acompanhamento do processo de escolarização de seus filhos e filhas

Abstract

This research discusses the strategies developed by black women, fromslums, workers and mothers in the context of the Family and school relationship. Its objective is to analyze how gender, race and class oppression interfere in the lives of women mothers of students in the Municipal Schools of Niteroi/RJ and how these relationship reflect on the monitoring of the school life of their sons and daughters. Our theoretical choice adopts as a premise an intersectional perspective, that is, it understands that the relations of gender, race and class a rearticulated in such a way as to affect everyday practices and social relations held in every daylife. Even more so considering that these black and working women have their lives corred by a misogynistic, racist society marked by social inequalities. In this way, we propose to present and reflect on some concepts that we consider structuring for the interface between school and Family with regard to the condition of these women. This is why we have chosen to discuss motherhood in the context of capitalist society, highlighting the sexual division of labor andthe legacy of patriarchy in the construction of women's social position in Brazil. Discussing gender from a contemporary perspective implies a review of the colonial legacies that forge class, race and gender as a construct that orders social life. We conducted qualitative research and opted for the instrument of narratives in order to listen attentively and allow the life stories of these women to echo from a dialogical relationship. Finally, as a result of there search process, we will collectively produce an e-book with the writings of the women who were willing to share their stories and we hope that this will contribute to strengthening the links between family and school.