Banca de DEFESA: YASMIM ALBUQUERQUE DE MELO SILVA

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STUDENT : YASMIM ALBUQUERQUE DE MELO SILVA
DATE: 23/03/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: AUDITÓRIO
TITLE:

BBlack Women Faculty Trajectories at the Federal University of Pernambuco: Between Racism and Resistance.

 

KEY WORDS:

Black teaching; Racial identity; Structural racism; Black teachers; Public university.

 

PAGES: 95
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The presence of Black women in Brazilian higher education bears historical marks of
struggle and resistance. Inserted in a space that, for centuries, was denied them, these
women face daily the legacies of structural racism and sexism, but they also build paths
of affirmation, knowledge production, and social transformation. In this context, the
university presents itself simultaneously as a space of exclusion and as a field of
symbolic and epistemological dispute. This dissertation investigates the trajectories of
Black female professors at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), analyzing
how they transform their experiences into strategies of resistance and identity
affirmation. To this end, it adopts a qualitative approach and uses narrative interviews,
seeking to understand how their academic and personal experiences intertwine in the
construction of their teaching practices. The study reveals that these professors face
recurring obstacles, such as the invisibility of their work, institutional isolation, and the
delegitimization of their knowledge. Even so, they develop forms of resistance that
range from the creation of solidarity networks to the valorization of their own
epistemologies, based on lived experience. Their trajectories demonstrate that
occupying university teaching positions is not limited to an individual achievement, but
constitutes a political act of institutional and symbolic transformation. It can be
concluded that these professors reconfigure the academic space by inserting
historically silenced voices into it. Their narratives highlight both the limits imposed by
discriminatory structures and the power of those who insist on resisting and remaining.
By asserting themselves as producers of knowledge and agents of change, they pave
the way for other Black women to occupy and redefine the university in the future.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - ***.536.134-** - CIBELE MARIA LIMA RODRIGUES - FJN
Presidente - DENISE MARIA BOTELHO
Externa à Instituição - FLÁVIA DA SILVA CLEMENTE