Coletivos de estudantes negros no ensino superior: novas formas de representações e produção de saberes

Abstract

Collectives of Black Students in Higher Education: New Forms of Representations and Production of Knowledge has as its central objective to investigate the knowledge produced, articulated and systematized in dialogue with practices of struggle constituted within the collective spaces of Black students at the Federal University of Bahia. The research was developed based on five assumptions: student groups are relevant actors in the fight against systemic racism in higher education; as spaces for claiming rights and places, collectives can be bridges for the construction of new subjectivities and identities; the concepts adopted by these collectives are based on mobilizations of the Black movement and Black feminism; in the spaces of organization, the relations between gender, race and sexuality are systematically tensioned and the strategies used within these spaces are part of the act of claiming their own demands, as well as becoming to define their own identities, naming their own stories. The theoretical-methodological path used was of a qualitative approach, of an ethnographic nature. Regarding the techniques used were: bibliographic research, data collection, interview and questionnaire. With the development of this research, it was possible to perceive that: the collectives of black students are important actors for the symbolic permanence of black students within the university. Understanding symbolic permanence as the possibilities that students have to experience the university, identify with other black students and be recognized by them, and, therefore, settle in collectives.