Banca de DEFESA: HAYANE MATEUS SILVA GOMES

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STUDENT : HAYANE MATEUS SILVA GOMES
DATE: 25/02/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: webconferência
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KEY WORDS:

Black women professors; Institutional racism; Higher education; Invisibility; Resistance

PAGES: 129
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

Anchored in a qualitative approach, the research adopts the narrative interview as its primary methodological procedure, conceiving it not merely as a data collection technique, but as a political device of listening and meaning-making. This methodological choice enables access to memories, trajectories, and experiences marked by invisibility, silencing, and institutional racism, while also revealing collectively constructed strategies of resistance and re-existence.The theoretical framework articulates contributions from Black feminist thought, decolonial studies, and anti racist education. Authors such as Lélia Gonzalez (1988; 2018) support the analysis by highlighting the intersection of racism and sexism in the formation of Brazilian society and in the production of hierarchies within knowledge systems. Sueli Carneiro (2003; 2005) is central to the understanding of epistemicide, allowing for an examination of how knowledge produced by Black women has been historically devalued or erased within the university. The choice of this author is justified by her decisive contribution to the critique of racialized structures of knowledge and to the understanding of racism as a technology of power.Nilma Lino Gomes (2002; 2017) is mobilized as a fundamental reference in the field of education, particularly for her interpretation of the Black movement as a producer of knowledge and for her reflections on Black presence in educational institutions as a pedagogical and political practice. Her work contributes to understanding the trajectories of Black women professors not merely as individual stories, but as collective experiences embedded in historical processes of struggle for recognition and racial justice.The research also engages with Patricia Hill Collins (2000; 2019), whose concept of Black feminist thought supports the understanding of situated knowledge production, and Conceição Evaristo (2008), whose notion of escrevivência informs a perspective in which experience, memory, and academic production are deeply intertwined. These theoretical contributions enable an analysis of invisibility not as absence, but as a denied and silenced presence shaped by power relations.The findings indicate that the invisibility of Black women professors at URCA is expressed not only through low representativeness, but also through the absence of institutional policies aimed at faculty retention, limited access to research resources, reduced academic recognition, and recurrent experiences of both explicit and subtle racism. In specific undergraduate programs—such as Geography, Literature, Nursing, and Medicine no Black women were identified among the permanent faculty, reinforcing the structural nature of this exclusion.Nevertheless, the narratives reveal fissures within institutional structures, highlighting practices of resistance manifested through the construction of support networks, participation in collectives and research groups, and the production of knowledge committed to social transformation. These strategies demonstrate that resistance is not an individual endeavor, but a collective one, reaffirming the presence of Black women professors as a political and epistemological force within the university.The study concludes that the presence of Black women in higher education challenges the colonial logics that structure Brazilian universities and underscores the urgent need for institutional policies committed to racial equity, the valorization of Afro-Brazilian knowledge, and the effective implementation of affirmative action in higher education teaching. By making these trajectories visible, the dissertation contributes to broadening the debate on racial justice in education and reaffirms that the university will only become truly democratic when it recognizes, values, and sustains the Black presences that have historically constituted it

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - FRANCISCA LAUDECI MARTINS SOUSA - URCA
Presidente - 1149638 - ANTONIO BASILIO NOVAES THOMAZ DE MENEZES
Externo à Instituição - ANTONIO JÚLIO GARCIA FREIRE - UERN
Externa à Instituição - CÍCERA NUNES - URCA
Interna - 1181646 - KILZA FERNANDA MOREIRA DE VIVEIROS
Interna - ***.088.424-** - MARLUCIA MENEZES DE PAIVA - UFRN
Interna - 2527711 - OLIVIA MORAIS DE MEDEIROS NETA