NÓS FLORESCEMOS ENTRE AS BRECHAS:
Escrevivendo processos de formação antirracista na Baixada Fluminense
Black women, Higher Education, Social Movements, Escrevivência, Anti-racist Education
This study aims to analyze anti-racist education initiatives developed by Black female leaders within the university setting (UFRRJ) and in social movements (collectives from the Baixada Fluminense region in Rio de Janeiro). The purpose is to highlight perspectives on Black identity and its struggles, based on the narratives of Black women who are at the forefront of decolonial thinking and of efforts to build an anti-racist society. The theoretical framework of the study is grounded in the work of Black intellectuals such as Lélia Gonzalez, Sueli Carneiro, and Joselina Silva, as well as Latin American thinkers—Mayara Santos-Febres, Yolanda Arroy-Pizarro, and Victoria Santa Cruz—women who address their experiences of Blackness through multiple interfaces, whether in the construction of Black social movements or in thinking about culture as a tool for transformation. The methodology adopted for this study is Escrevivência (a concept coined by Conceição Evaristo referring to the writing of the lived experiences of Black people, especially women), understood as memory, ancestry, and history. The methodological procedures include: mapping scholarly productions on ethnic-racial relations within the aforementioned groups; collecting and analyzing the educators’ narratives in order to understand their trajectories and projects; and presenting the results alongside the development of activities, with the aim of ensuring a social return of the research. At this stage, we deepen the theoretical scope outlined in Chapter I; the remaining sections will be structured in the subsequent phases of the research.