A presença de mulheres negras em cargos hierarquizados da Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Manaus: racismo e impasse na sua pertença e autodeclaração

Abstract

This research has the purpose to study the presence of black women in hierarchical positions of the Municipal Education of Manaus, subject little explored in the social sciences and now comes with great potential for analysis. The purpose of this study is to verify the way in which black women step into the positions of power in the Municipal Education of Manaus, highlighting both the appearance of prejudice faced by them in the work, the competence they demonstrate in exercise their functions. We seek also examined how establishes the conceptual intersection between gender and race in the feminist movement at the same time seek to point the feminization of the situation mastership. We treat, finally, to establish the profile of black women take hierarchical positions in SEMED / Manaus, punctuating working hours and support networks with whom they leave their children while working outside the home. The study was conducted based on the contribution of qualitative approaches, without excluding aspects quantitative. among the multiple aspects revealed it was found that racism still latent in the workspace of black women and black women often own is not perceived as a subject hit by racism. those women find it difficult to self-declare black or black, prefer to use other terms to hide herself race. found also, they are in subordinate positions and do not disclose the symbolic violence suffered in the workplace, which we can assume to be a feature of non-recognition of own ethnic. should condition to recognize, finally, the fact that there is a veiled racism that propels their own black women don't to recognize their ethnicity in the hierarchical position of performance in Manaus-City-Department-of-Education.