Black Women's Lives

This publication is the result of a master's research project that aimed to engage in dialogue with black female teachers at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), seeking to understand the paths and journeys that these teachers went through to become teachers in higher education, and to understand the extent to which ethnic-racial and gender social relations interfere in their teaching practices. The theme to be presented and discussed in this study is more broadly related to research in education, with a focus on education in ethnic-racial relations and the educational processes triggered by black women teachers in higher education, especially in the processes in which they have or have not experienced racism and discrimination in the educational sphere. In this sense, this study assumes that Brazilian universities are still in an unequal situation, where black students are a minority and, when we look at the teaching staff, the situation is even more alarming.