Gender and race relations inside schools and in academic spaces: experiences of young black women at the University of Brasilia

Authors

  • Wivian Weller Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
  • Erika do Carmo Lima Ferreira Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
  • Ana Paula Barbosa Meira Universidade de Brasília (UnB)

Keywords:

Affirmative action, Quotas, Youth, Race relations, Gender relations.

Abstract

This article presents the experiences of four black female students admitted by the University of Brasília through the affirmative action programme. They attend courses in Electrical Engineering, Medicine, Pedagogy and Social Work. Analysing different courses enables a reflection on how different contexts, with distinct mechanisms of regulation, can produce different representations of gender and racial relations. By choosing students of different academic courses we are interested in observing the strategies to overcome racism and prejudice linked to the contexts or to the relational processes where their identities are constructed. We are not interested in producing a general overview about the situation of the students, but in obtaining some insights about their representations of gender and race relation. Through their narratives we try to comprehend the relevance they give to school and academic experiences linked to racism and prejudice and also the mechanisms which influence their position concerning these issues.

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Weller, W., Ferreira, E. do C. L., & Meira, A. P. B. (2009). Gender and race relations inside schools and in academic spaces: experiences of young black women at the University of Brasilia. Education, 34(1), 77–94. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufsm.br/reveducacao/article/view/1590

Issue

educação v. 34, n. 1, jan./abr. 2009

Section

Dossier: Anthropology of Education

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