THE CONSTRUCTION OF EHNIC-RACIAL IDENTITY AMONG BLACK MOTHERS OF THE ESCOLA DA AMIGOS DA NATUREZA STUDENTS AT TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS/BA
Genre. Black mothers. Identities.
Through this research we aim to elaborate a qualitative study about how black mothers of the Friends of Nature School in Teixeira de Freitas elaborate their belongings of identities. The subjects of this research are black women (black and brown), mothers of students enrolled in the 1st cycle of Human Formation of the Friends of Nature School in Teixeira de Freitas. The theoretical-methodological questions of the research are based on the formulations of black feminism elaborated in the United States, Canada and England and that had repercussions in Brazil from the mid-1970s, a context in which the Brazilian educational system was destined to a small part of the population and of which the children of black mothers were not part. The structuring discursive element of this object and research theme is outlined in an attempt to understand how the black mothers of the students of the school unit in question elaborate and enunciate their identities from the intersection of the markers of gender, race and class. Like other Brazilian cities, Teixeira de Freitas still lives on the historical remnants of colonial, patriarchal and slave culture, a reality still present, and the record of the continuities of this history in the treatment of black women. These continuities, regrettably and unfortunately, end up defining a context of our social relations, contributing to the persistence of racism, sexism and social, economic and symbolic inequalities present also in the educational sphere. In this sense, we problematize: i) how the construction of ethnic-racial identity belonging to the black mothers of the Friends of Nature Municipal School is operationalized; ii) what is the typology of icons and / or cultural symbols that mothers activate in their processes of identification and construction of identities. The research in progress uses different sources, from the bibliographical to the pictorial ones and in dialogue with the files of memory (oral sources) on the histories of life and the forms of representations on the black mothers.