O lugar da mulher negra no curso de Serviço Social - UFCG/Campus Sousa.

Abstract

The insertion of black women in education over time suffered direct consequences from slavery in Brazil, leaving this population excluded from various areas of society, especially schools and universities. In this sense, the question is: What is the place of black women in the Social Service course, Campus Sousa? Can one think of education as a method of resistance for black women to overcome the limiting reality imposed by capitalism? The research is justified by the personal experience of this author, when entering the university space, through reserved places in the racial quota, little by little the reduced presence of black women in university spaces was observed and, in the course, the evasion of this minority. The study aimed to analyze the representation of black women at the Federal University of Campina Grande, Campus Sousa, in the Social Service course. As specific objectives: to develop a theoretical-methodological framework in relation to social and racial inequalities with an emphasis on gender issues in higher education; to quantify the representation of black women in the Social Service Course at the Federal University of Campina Grande, Campus Sousa; and, understand the role of black women included in the Social Service Course. The research was descriptive and bibliographical, with a quantitative approach. For data collection, a structured questionnaire was used. The collected data were tabulated in Microsoft® Office Excel® spreadsheets to make graphs and tables. With this research, it is considered that in the Social Work Course, Campus Sousa, black women are well represented in the categories of students and professors. The numbers are representative as a student, becoming an isolated case of the UFCG, however, they are shy by category in the Social Service Course of this institution, a fact proven by the low representation in teaching, as well as in the technical administrative and outsourced categories, when they did not have the representation of the female gender or the black race, which may represent that the traditional historically pre-defined conceptions of the feminine still permeate social practices, in addition to referring to the classic sexual division of labor.