Banca de DEFESA: ADRIANA BERNARDINO MARCELINO

BLACK WOMEN AND (TEACHERS) AND THE Stubbornness of No Place: Workers in the Municipalities of MIRACEMA and SANTO ANTÔNIO DE PÁDUA from NOROESTE FLUMINENSE

Black female teachers; Race Relations; Basic education.

The present work exposes part of a Master's research in progress, within the (PPGEDUC) Graduate Program in Education, Contemporary Contexts and Popular Demands, at (UFRRJ) Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, on black teachers working in the basic education, in the municipalities of Miracema and Santo Antônio de Pádua. By listening to them through interviews about their trajectories, we can reflect on the strategies used to not succumb in the school environment and outside it. And how much the presence of the myth of racial democracy is still perpetuated in the daily lives of those women. The discourse of equality is cruel, few are able to reach a place of leadership, or coordination. The life of black teachers is resignified as they go through a process of social ascension and visibility. However, this mobility is not protection so that they do not suffer from racism that is so naturalized and recurrent in small towns in the interior. Thus, black teachers are references for their families, students and community who see in them the representation within the school space, that is, their presence becomes a political act. Within this logic, black teachers are present with their subjectivities with a look beyond teaching, understanding and intervening in situations of racial discrimination. In the search for acceptance and respect, the black body of the teacher in the school environment is recognized by her equals and those who differ from her. This group also includes those who see it positively in everyday life. Their performance in teaching broke stereotypes that were, and are released in relation to the intellectuality of black people who were considered incapable. To think about black teachers in the countryside of the state of Rio de Janeiro is also to elaborate on their personal trajectories, their performances in education. One of the questions of this work is to find out what obstacles they had to face to enter the teaching profession, contradicting the statistics of the place of these cities, the place destined for black women, was subaltern work.