Docentes negras na Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco: um estudo sobre a presença e o significado da mulher negra na academia

Abstract

This research deals with the construction of Afro-Brazilian women within the academic space from the intersectionality that underlies the identity of black women and the productions of this meaning / representation within the academy. The objective was to understand or interpret the black female gender from the perspective of Afro-Brazilian documents that are inserted in the university environment of UFRPE. For this, use the qualitative methodology with secondary data from periodic consultations, articles, books, theses and dissertations available in the CAPES database, andto access the primary data was prepared as a questionnaire in the GoogleForms platform or sent to teachers. from UFRPE and answered by 14 teachers and 8 self-declared: black (4 teachers); light brunette (2 documents) and brown (2 documents). From the content analysis, it identifies as different meanings that cross or are identified black within the university (there is a view that a space is mostly and historically occupied by white men), as an image of “winning” and consequently “ empowered ”to occupy such a place. There is still no data from the documents about black universals, which can be seen as an opportunity for research and for the deepening of issues that connect gender, race and class, understanding that occupying a position of power as documents creates practical representations of transformations and advances of the Brazilian black community.