Presença de mulheres negras nos cursos de pós-graduação em design no Brasil

Abstract

This thesis considers a context where Black women suffer the most from alarming rates of inequality in Brazil, they continue to advance socially in spaces that were previously completely denied to them and that remain predominantly white and male. This includes access to higher education, which, despite a notable change in the student profile since the implementation of Law 12.711/2012, known as the Quota Law, still constitutes spaces of oppression for black people. Thus, this research aims to investigate the experiences of Black women who have studied and are studying in postgraduate design programs in Brazil. Presenting accounts of their perceptions and issues related to the ease, difficulties, and perspectives of their time attending design courses at university, this thesis considers the forms of oppression through racism, sexism, and social position that Black women face in the country. Using qualitative research, through bibliographic review and narrative research, which allows investigation based on the accounts of people focusing on obtaining their life stories, interviews were conducted with women from various states in the country, presenting their trajectories in postgraduate design programs. Their testimonies bring to the discussion the issues of representation, racism, and structural challenges faced in their histories, from the perspective of the numerous difficulties in entering and remaining in educational institutions. It is possible to perceive that the inequalities faced by Black women cannot be reduced to a single dimension, and it is necessary to consider the complexity of the social relations that structure their life trajectories.