O lugar da mulher negra nas ciências: implementação das ações afirmativas na Pós Graduação do Instituto de Física da Universidade Federal da Bahia (IF-UFBA)

Abstract

This paper discusses, through the History of Sciences, the turn of Affirmative Actions (AA) towards the inclusion and promotion of diversity in the scientific career. The chapters are divided into two, organized according to the objectives proposed in the research. Initially, As Yabás: black women in the history of science is reported, with the aim of demonstrating mini biographies, thus contributing to the overcoming of meritocratic discourse. In the first chapter, the obstacles faced in the trajectories of a scientific career are presented. These offer an understanding of the relevance of Affirmative Actions in graduate studies. The second chapter explores the implementation of Affirmative Actions in graduate programs linked to the Physics Institute of the Federal University of Bahia (IF-UFBA). Also in the second chapter, he situates the Dam Systems acting as an obstruction and hindrance of social groups pressured by domination-oppression. Affirmative Actions in graduate studies are valves for those excluded. The promotion of equity and specific public policies such as Affirmative Actions is researched, with the aim of investigating the implementation of Affirmative Actions at the UFBA Institute of Physics in the period between 2017 and 2020. For this, exploratory research was carried out, surveying the public notices for regular master's and doctoral students. Oral History of the institutional conferences and their agents in this work was a fundamental methodological resource given the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic context. The contribution of the work is to outline the variables related to the scientific career of black women and the postgraduate AA with public policy acting on the exclusions of race and gender. An understanding of the demarcation, indicators and arguments related to Affirmative Actions in graduate studies is presented, whose scientific career includes diversityand inclusion in research spaces.