Mães negras na pós-graduação: uma abordagem interseccional

Abstract

The conciliation between motherhood and scientific career is a difficult task for women, making it even harder for black women. Among the problems faced, the constitution of modern science has excluded women from scientific work in a social context that confines mothers to the domestic environment and black women to servitude. Thus, black mother women have accumulated in their academic career numerous disadvantages resulting from the intersections between multiple forms of oppression. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the academic trajectory of black students from postgraduate courses at the Federal University of Bahia, identifying black women and mothers at different postgraduate courses at the Federal University of Bahia and investigating possible care networks. and strategies that make it possible for these black students to stay in their courses; It also analyzes how motherhood has been interpreted by the sciences and how it has historically shaped itself. understanding about the impact of motherhood on the tasks related to the university / academic daily life of these university mothers; and understand how they deal with the relationships of autonomy and authority within and outside the university academic environment. For this, triangulation of the methods of collection by e-survey and semi-structured interviews that underwent content analysis and critical discourse analysis were performed. Even though they enjoy a high level of education, these black mothers still face problems faced by the black population in general, demonstrating that the racist structure still affects the trajectory of the black person of any socioeconomic level. On the other hand, it was noted that even after many advances in the achievement of rights of university women, motherhood during postgraduate training still imposes difficulties for these women who develop strategies to remain and constitute their scientific career.