trajectories; black female teachers at UFPE; racial identities; pedagogical practices; resistance
Academic insecurity, created and nurtured in poor black women by an unequal and segregating system of doors and opportunities, is something that permeates our collective mind and ends up annihilating and drowning knowledge and dreams, messing with our emotions and psychology. Although academia, which thousands of people aspire to enter, sometimes tries to disseminate and even confuse, even if minimally, the search for intellectual, social, political, class and economic advancement, it is indisputable that our participation, qualification, academic production and insertion in the job market within these spaces and movements have occurred, occur and will continue to occur. In this context, some black women have broken the imposed barriers and conquered spaces that were historically denied to them. With this in mind, this work seeks to understand the trajectories of black female professors at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and their experiences, focusing on racial identities, pedagogical practices and professional attitudes in a predominantly white, elitist and exclusionary environment. Considering that all academic work requires a methodology applied and developed according to the nature of the investigation, this study, focused on the teaching trajectories and identities of black female professors at UFPE, will use a mixed methodology, which combines quantitative and qualitative data. From this approach, we seek to reconstruct and report social events through data, narratives, orality and memories. The contact with these professors, and, in addition, the analysis of their experiences, aims to highlight their experiences in the face of academic spaces that have historically been exclusionary and segregating.