Identidades e trajetórias de docentes negra(o)s da Ufam

Abstract

The current dissertation is the result of a research that took place in the Federal University of the state of Amazonas (UFAM) in Brazil , as a requirement to get the title of Master in Education as established by the Program of Post-Graduation in Education held by the same university, which was financed by the CNPq, aiming to investigate the academical and professional histories of the black citizens who are inserted in this university as professors. To do so, the biographical approach through a life history orally-told method was the basis for the methodology taken. Thus, five professor testimonies were A/V recorded from a semi-structured sketch as the answers for the following questions: How did the whole academical trajectory of these subjects happen? Which factors determined their academical life as students? How could their professional experience at UFAM be described? What challenges did they face for being black professors? All along the time they played their roles as common academic students and professors, did they realize any change concerning the acceptance of the black identity void of prejudice? In the case in which they had to face inward prejudice issues against negroes at UFAM, what strategies did they make use of? This way, the main goals of this research had been established and accomplished with their objectives, which were to identify and make an analysis of the process of the construction and reconstruction of these subjects identities, the forms of prejudice that were observed inside of their workplaces, as well as the needs or its negative for the establishment of affirmative political programs in research field. As to conclude, our analysis pointed towards the need of the implementation of a program to deal against institutional racism and a wide curriculum reform in the perspective of a reeducation for ethnical-racial relations at the Federal University of the state of Amazonas.