MULHERES NEGRAS COTISTAS DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA E AS POLÍTICAS DE AÇÕES AFIRMATIVAS: HISTÓRIAS MODIFICADAS

https://doi.org/10.29327/211653.6.7-1

Abstract

This paper presents research that investigated trajectories of black women who are affirmative action students in undergraduate courses at the Federal University at Santa Catarina. Twelve black female students were interviewed. Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, campus and capital, as well as the intersectionality of Kimberlé Crenshaw, were used to support the analysis of their trajectories. The university space, as a campus, is conceived as a structured field, a place of practices, relations and recognition, but also of the discriminations and institutional racism that shape the values and opportunities for the identity differences that coexist there. We identify which types of capital the students use to overcome the obstacles, and considering the category of habitus, we indicate the changes underway in their trajectories. The category of intersectionality was used to understand with greater complexity how two or more forms of subordination are aggregated, thus recognizing other factors related to their social identities such as class, race, color, ethnicity, religion, origin, sexual orientation etc., which  are  socially  discriminated.  The  study  therefore  denounces processes of production and reproduction of racial inequalities and of gender that perpetuate social injustices, while it identifies the affirmative action policies as a means to act collectively for more equality, justice and recognition of differences.