Black female university professors: trajectories and narratives

The present research sought to examine the condition of black women professors in higher education in private universities in the city of Sorocaba - SP, from 2000 to 2007, through their respective trajectories and narratives, focused on three aspects: gender, race, schooling. Our goal was to verify the political and professional integration of black women as Higher Education professors. The narrative analysis of their trajectories and the quantitative data allow us to affirm that the condition of black women as university professors is that of exclusion. A closer look at the trajectories and narratives of three black women, university professors in Sorocaba, reveals a history of neo-racism in Brazil. We believe that when black women become more present, as professors at universities and in social positions and professions that weren't allowed before, this will promote the construction of several identities, with new manners of existence and representations that will contribute to the consolidation of a pluralistic society.

Black Female Professors; Black Women; Trajectories; Narratives; Neo-racism