O Estado da Arte: a questão racial em dissertações, teses e projetos de pesquisa dos Programas de pós-graduação em Serviço Social da PUC-Rio, PUC-SP, UFBA e UFRB

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of a documentary research, with a qualitative approach, which is integrated into the research line “Social Issues and Human Diversity” of the Postgraduate Program in Social Work of the Federal University of Bahia (PPGSS-UFBA), with financial support from the Bahia State Research Support Foundation (FAPESB). The main objective of this work was to analyze the scientific production of dissertations and theses produced in the period 2000 to 2022 in PPGSS/PUC-RIO, PPGSS/PUC-SP and in the period 2019 to 2024 in PPGSS/UFBA and POSTERR/UFRB and main themes addressed in the active research projects of the aforementioned programs, to systematize the incidence of decolonial epistemologies regarding the racial debate in academic productions. The production of knowledge, at the core of academic chairs, hegemonically Eurocentric, and the analysis of social reality adopting the epistemological field echoed by the voices of the Global South can contribute to breaking with the models imposed by the colonialist system. We propose to hold a debate on the light of decolonial epistemologies, with the study of the issues inherent to the coloniality of power, knowledge and being. This is a project that proposes to reflect new perspectives on scientific thought, since it aims to break with conservative Eurocentric thought. Thus, I will problematize how the theoretical matrices of decolonial epistemologies can contribute to confronting racism in professional training in Social Work, since the racial issue remains timid in the production of knowledge. I believe that the ethnic-racial debate should dialogue with the curricular contents, which is fundamental for the work of social workers, given the genesis of the social issue based on slavery roots. Using the state of the art, we conducted a literature review in order to deepen our knowledge about the research object. We used the methodology of document analysis and word cloud. Based on the data obtained, the research analysis points to the need to decolonize Eurocentric knowledge in order to rebuild new epistemes that support new knowledge production. The results reinforce the need to eliminate racial prejudice, given that postgraduate programs, especially at pioneering universities, still present few dissertations, theses and research projects that discuss racial issues.